Bangladesh
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Bangladesh: Urgent Call to Safeguard Human Rights and Democracy Ahead of January Elections
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express our deep concern about Bangladesh’s current human rights situation and closure of civic space as the country heads toward national elections on 7 January 2024. Since late October 2023, following the rallies and demonstrations co-organized by the political opposition, the ruling party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Awami…
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Full prisons and false charges: Bangladesh opposition faces pre-election crackdown
Tags Share In conversation with The Guardian, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens comments on Bangladesh’s pre-election crackdown on opposition leaders, supporters and activists – almost 10,000 of whom have been arrested after protests broke out against the ruling government.
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Bangladesh: Government must end excessive use of force against protesters, release arbitrarily detained activists and political opponents and conduct prompt investigations
Tags Share Bangladesh authorities must immediately cease resorting to violence and excessive use of force to suppress protests. The undersigned organizations wish to express our deep concern over the alarming and distressing developments in Bangladesh, in the context of the rallies and demonstrations co-organized by the opposition parties and led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party…
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Experts call on the international community to engage in specific recommendations during the Universal Periodic Review on Bangladesh
Tags Share Ahead of the 44th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) scheduled for November 13, 2023, four experts called on U.N. member states to urge Bangladesh to cease the continuing violations faced by human rights defenders, journalists, and critical voices within the country, during a virtual…
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Imprisonment of Top Rights Activists in Bangladesh Triggers Global Outrage
Tags Share “They are two of the most widely respected human rights advocates worldwide. They are being punished for speaking truth to power.” Our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens comments on the recent sentencing of two prominent human rights activists in Bangladesh, both of whom exposed serious human rights violations by government…
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Bangladesh: Quash conviction and release rights defenders
Tags Share (September 14, 2023) Bangladesh authorities should immediately release human rights defenders Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, quash their convictions, and end all reprisals against them for their legitimate human rights work, said 72 organizations today. Khan and Elan were sentenced by the Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka to two years’ of prison…
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Joint Letter Calling on Bangladesh to Dismiss Digital Security Act Cases Over Freedom of Expression
Tags Share Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina People’s Republic of Bangladeshinfo@pmo.gov.bd Sent via email Madam Prime Minister Hasina, We, the 19 undersigned press freedom and human rights organizations, write to seek your administration’s urgent intervention to immediately end the harassment and intimidation of journalist Adhora Yeasmean, who faces an investigation under the Digital Security Act (DSA)…
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BANGLADESH: Government must cease enforced disappearances, stop harassment of the victims’ families and hold perpetrators accountable
Tags Share Bangkok/ Dhaka/ Geneva/ Hong Kong/Kuala Lumpur/ Manila/ Melbourne/ Paris/ Washington, D.C.; 29 August 2023: We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely concerned over the continued commission of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh and the denial of access to justice for the victims. The acts of enforced disappearance occur with impunity in Bangladesh and have become…
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Bangladesh: Joint Submissions for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Government
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bangladesh, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights alongside our partners have submitted the following reports. The first report was submitted together with Asian Legal Resource Center and Committee to Protect Journalists and the second report was submitted as part of a Bangladesh…
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Bangladesh: End Political Prosecution of Rights Leaders
Tags Share The Bangladesh authorities should cease their continued criminalization and harassment of Bangladesh human rights group, Odhikar, 21 human rights groups said today. Authorities should drop politically-motivated charges against Odhikar’s leaders, Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan. On August 10, 2013, Khan, secretary of Odhikar and a prominent human rights activist, was arbitrarily…
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UN expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation
Tags Share The Associated Press notes Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ advocacy on behalf of Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights activist who was arbitrarily detained in violation of international law.
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BANGLADESH: Accountability is a must for ending torture and impunity
Tags Share Bangkok/Dhaka/Geneva/ Hong Kong/ Kuala Lumpur/Manila/Melbourne/Washington, D.C.: 24 June 2023: On the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, we, the undersigned organisations, are extremely concerned over the ongoing use of torture and degrading treatment in Bangladesh by law-enforcement agencies and security forces, and the…
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