Bangladeshi model and activist Meghna Alam alleged that her relationship with Essa Yousef Al Duhailan, Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Bangladesh, led to her arrest and public humiliation after their reported affair became the centre of a political and diplomatic controversy.

Meghna Alam, 30, said she met Al Duhailan at an event in Dhaka in September 2024. She alleged that the ambassador pursued her romantically, sending gifts including a Quran, jewellery and 200 kilograms of dates labelled a “Gift from the King of Saudi Arabia."

The former Miss Earth Bangladesh 2020 said the relationship was brief but public, adding that the envoy had told her he was divorced. She claimed that after she ended contact with him, rumours began circulating in Dhaka that she had become pregnant and had a

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