A Kyrgyzstan Aero Nomad flight will land at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport at 21:10 pm on Tuesday, carrying 180 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants deported from the United States, documents accessed by Northeast News reveal.
On September 4 a batch of 39 handcuffed Bangladeshi illegal immigrants, earlier deported from at least three eastern states of the US, landed as deportees at Dhaka airport, sparking outrage across Bangladesh and beyond for the humiliating treatment accorded to them.
While the Bangladesh Foreign and Home ministries are bracing to receive 180 deportees – the largest batch since the deportation drive began two months ago – officials in Bangladesh’s mission at Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital shot off several emails among each other today to alert the Foreign Ministry of the arrival of Aero Nomad flight.
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The flight carrying the latest batch of Bangladeshis was initially scheduled to depart Bishkek on September 8 but was cancelled for unspecified reasons.
While it is not known what treatment the US immigration authorities will mete out to the latest batch of Bangladeshi deportees, it is likely that they too would land at Dhaka airport with handcuffs on.
The Mohammad Yunus-led interim regime has shown no public outrage at the treatment handed out to previous batches of Bangladeshi deportees even as the Foreign Ministry had expected, as far back as March 2025, that they US authorities would not take recourse to using handcuffs.
