This human rights monitoring report covers the three month period from January to March 2011. The main areas of issue within the report are as follows:
- Reported statistics show that every 3 days 1 person is killed extra-judicially
- Bangladeshi girl killed and hung on barbed wire fence by BSF
- Complainant receives threats by the killers of Upazila Chairman
- President’s clemency for person accused of murder
- Criminal cases withdrawn out of ‘political’ consideration’
- Political violence continues
- Whereabouts remain unknown after a man is picked up by RAB
- Fears that Corruption may increase if the present Anti Corruption Commission Bill is passed
- Meetings of Lamppost, Chattra Gonomoncho and Arial Beel Rakkha Committee dispersed
- Clashes between police and protestors against airport at Arial Beel: cases filed against the demonstrators
- Government’s unwillingness to approve Odhikar’s project – Odhikar HRDs victims of harassment
- Pourashava (Municipality) Elections, by-elections in two constituencies and Union Parishad elections
- Arrests under the Anti Terrorism Act 2009 and allegation of torture
- People struggling for self-determination handed over to the Indian authority
- Begging by children and protest against expulsion of beggars
- Verdicts of the BDR mutiny cases
- Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- 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 Mar 2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
human-rights-monitoring-Monthly-report-Jan Mar 2011-ben (full text in Bangla, PDF)
