Deportees From Kuwait And Saudi On The Rise

Nearly a thousand Sri Lankan expatriate workers , mainly women, have been deported from Kuwait and Saudi‬ Arabia and the numbers are likely to increase, officials said. The single largest batch of 136 arrived on Friday, officials with the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) said .
many of the returnees had been detained for offences such as visa violations, trading in alcohol and light narcotics, stealing, assault, adultery and prostitution. Association for Licensed Foreign Employment Agencies (ALFEA) president Faizer Maickeen said the returnees from Kuwait had been detained at a police centre in Jalib. He said many of the women went to these countries as domestic aides but had later decamped and been on the run until their arrest and detention.Mr. Maickeen said some had got involved in nefarious activities, including prostitution, to make ends meet. He said these women had been blacklisted in those countries and would not be allowed to re-enter them .

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