5 April 2011 Protecting the Rights of Human Rights Defenders: A State Obligation and a Moral Duty It is not only a legal obligation of any state to promote, protect and fulfill the fundamental rights and freedom of its citizens but it is also its moral duty to recognize and protect those who are defending […]
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A call for investigation of state intimidation of Adilur Rahman Khan & Odhikar
The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), an organization and network of democracy and political rights promoting groups, wishes to express its concern regarding the continued harassment and intimidation of Odhikar and its staff. In particular, the harassment of its Secretary Advocate Adilur Rahman Khan gives ANFREL concern that the government is attempting to intimidate […]
Call for the end of harassment against Odhikar staff
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a membership based regional human rights organization, writes this letter expressing their deep concerns over the continued harassment of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan and Odhikar by national security agencies. Mr. Khan, a prominent human rights defender, is an advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and […]
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the FIDH and OMCT requests urgent intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about continuing acts of harassment against the members of Odhikar, a human rights organisation composed of lawyers, university professors, journalists, social and development activists committed to human rights. Since March 14, 2011, members of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) reportedly resumed their activities of close monitoring on […]
Urgent appeal on the closure of the daily Amar Desh and the acts of harassment and ill-treatment against Mahmudur Rahman
The Observatory has been informed by Odhikar about the closure of Amar Desh, an opposition Bangladeshi daily newspaper which regularly reports on corruption cases and about the acts of harassment and ill-treatment against several member of its staff, including Mr. Mahmudur Rahman, Amar Desh’s Editor, presently arbitrarily detained. This harassment intervenes after the publication of […]
Bangladesh : fear of torture for detained human rights journalist Mr Mahmudur Rahman
Human rights defender and Acting Editor of the recently closed Amar Desh newspaper, Mr Mahmudur Rahman, has been placed on 12-day remand on charges of terrorism and sedition, after his arrest on 2 June 2010. Amar Desh is a major daily newspaper in Bangladesh which has been critical of the government, regularly reported on repression […]
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