This human rights monitoring report covers the six-month period from January to June 2011. The main areas of issue within the report are as follows:
- Political violence continues into 2011
- Political violence related to elections
- Extrajudicial killings
- Death in custody
- Public lynching
- Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) in the news
- The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 and torture
- Human rights violations in border areas
- Political leniency to accused criminals
- The right to peaceful association,
- The presentation of a bill in Parliament aimed at weakening the Anti-Corruption Commission
- Freedom of the media
- Attacks on religious minority communities and journalists
- Rifts between the government and human rights defenders including Odhikar
- Workers’ rights
- The transfer of people struggling for self determination to the Indian authorities
- Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Trial of the BDR mutiny
- Widespread violence against women
The report closes with statistics on violations and a list of 13 recommendations to the government of Bangladesh.
human rights monitoring-monthly report-Jan Jun 2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
human rights monitoring-monthly report-Jan Jun 2011-ben (full text in Bangla, PDF)
