The Embassy of Nepal to Malaysia rescued 30 Nepali migrant workers stranded in the Southeast Asian country and sent them home safe today.

 

According to a press release issued by the embassy, the Nepali youths were kept in the custody of Pekan Nanas Detention Centre, Pontian district, for weeks as they could not afford air ticket to return home.

 

The embassy had got them one-way air ticket from the budget provided by Foreign Employment Promotion Board.

 

“Since Nepali migrant workers living in detention centre for a long time are likely to be mentally disturbed,  the embassy took the initiative for their safe rescue and repatriation by bearing the air ticket cost from the budget received from FEPB,” it informed.

 

In addition to extracting high recruitment fees from migrant workers, recruitment agents and agencies use other deceptive and coercive ways to compel migrants to work in hazardous conditions.

 

False promises about salaries and working conditions, and  mechanisms of coercion applied by recruitment agencies restrict migrant workers’ freedom of movement and compel them to perform labour that they did not originally consent to, according to reports. Police had rescued 10 Nepali workers from Malaysia  in February.