The United Arab Emirates president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, pardoned 26 Bangladeshi migrants, and they went home on Friday.

According to a news release, the Bangladeshi nationals were on an Indigo Air Lines flight that landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at approximately 3:05 p.m.

The workers who have returned to the nation have received immediate help, including transportation charges from our Brac Migration Program through the Expatriate Welfare Desk, according to Shariful Hasan, Associate Director of Brac's Migration Program and Youth Platform.

He declared that the Wage Earns Welfare Board and Brac of the Expatriate Welfare Ministry will endeavor to facilitate the social and economic reintegration of these foreign nationals.

For this, psycho-social and economic support will be provided as per their needs, he added.

In July, a court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) jailed 57 Bangladeshi nationals for holding protests in the Gulf country against the previous government in Bangladesh.

Three Bangladeshis were sentenced to life, 53 others to 10 years in prison, and one to 11 years for “gathering and inciting riots” during protests.

Later, the President of the country ordered to pardon all those 57 Bangladeshis at the request of Dr Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser to the Interim Government of Bangladesh.

Then 31 Bangladeshi returned to the country in three phases.