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Bahrain softens ban on workers from Bangladesh

Star Business Report
Bahrain has said the ban on issuing work permits to Bangladeshis imposed on May 26 will not affect anyone already working in that country and the professionals who intend to apply for work there, reported Bahraini newspaper Gulf Daily News yesterday.
Bangladeshi residents and their families already in Bahrain as well as those changing jobs in that country will be exempted from the ban, said Assistant Under-Secretary for Entry Points, Research and Follow-upYousifAlGhatam.
The ban will only be slapped on Bangladeshi labourers who applied for work visas in Bahrain after May 27, and will apply afterwards, he said.
Bahrain imposed the ban after a group of lawmakers called for action following the death of a Bahraini, Mohammed Jassim Dossary, 38, who was allegedly murdered by a Bangladeshi mechanic last month.
Meanwhile, six organisations for migrants' rights at a press conference in Dhaka yesterday demanded reconsideration of the ban.
At the press conference, Obhibashi Karmi Unnayan Programme Chairman Shakirul Islam said around five lakh people who are the rela-tives of over 1 lakh Bangladeshis living in Bahrain will be in serious financial troubles if Bahrain's parlia-
ment accepts a proposal that recommends expulsion of the Bangladeshis.
“A democratic country like Bahrain that signed various international treaties on labour and human rights should reconsider the ban on Bangladeshis," he said, condemning the killing of a Bahraini allegedly by a Bangladeshi.
The organisations also urged the government of Bangladesh to take necessary measures to ensure the rights of Bangladeshi migrants in that country.
Officials of Wa r b e Development Foundation, Bangladeshi Migrant Organisation, International Migrants Foundation, Mutual Welfare Society and Obhibashi Kormi Association, Sirajganj, were present at the press meet.
BSS adds: Meanwhile Bangladesh's Charge d'Affaires in Manama Mohammad Safiul Islam in a letter to the foreign office here yesterday said Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashed-bin Abdullah AI Khalifa assured him that the ban was 'completely temporary'.
But, he said, the minister sought Dhaka's cooperation to tackle the growing trend of criminal activities in Bahrain and the 'involvement of Bangladeshis in the incidents'.
"He (minister) assured me that after taking some steps to resolve the issue, the situation will be normal," the letter read.