Bahrain lifts work visa ban on Bangladeshis

Manama: Bahrain has lifted a ban on work visas for Bangladeshis, two months after suspending the permits when a mechanic from Bangladesh was accused of a gruesome murder, a diplomat said on Tuesday.

"Yesterday we received an official memo from the interior ministry notifying us that they lifted the ban on granting work visas to Bangladeshis," charge d'affaires in the Bangladesh embassy Manama Saif Al Islam said.

However, the granting of visas was made conditional on applicants being over 25 years of age and providing a good conduct certificate from their country's interior ministry, he said.