Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said total of 11,450 Bangladeshis including migrant workers are in jails in 31 countries.
The foreign minister said this in Parliament while replying to a query of ruling Awami League MP from reserved seats for women Farida Yasmin.
With Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chauhdury in the chair, the question-answer session was tabled.
In a scripted answer, the foreign minister said that according to information of different missions of Bangladesh abroad, maximum 5746 Bangladeshis are remaining in jails in Saudi Arabia while the lowest number-two are in jails in Portugal, Japan and Belgium each.
Meanwhile, Portugal, Japan and Belgium have the lowest number of jailed Bangladeshis — two each.
The number of Bangladeshis confined in jails in other countries are: 1579 Bangladeshis in India, 508 in Turkiye, 420 in Oman, 415 in Qatar, 414 in Greece, 404 in UAE, 385 in South Africa, 358 in Myanmar, 219 Malaysia, 217 in Iraq, 191 in China, 122 in Hong Kong, 100 in Jordan, 81 in Italy, 70 in Maldives, 66 in Singapore, 49 in Indonesia, 28 in Lebanon, 19 in Spain, 16 in Brunei, nine in Libya, six each in Egypt and Korea, five in Algeria, four in Thailand and four in Mozambique.
The foreign minister in reply to another query, said at present, no Bangladeshi has been arrested and imprisoned due to entering India mistakenly.
He gave this information in response to the question of AL MP HM Badiuzzaman.
To a query from Jatiya Party Secretary General and Opposition Chief Whip Mujibul Haque Chunnu, the foreign minister said the United States has never provided duty-free and quota-free facilities for the export of garment products from Bangladesh there.
