This six-monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh during the six first months of 2013, specifically describing the following areas:
- 30 persons on average killed extrajudicially every month
- Torture in custody
- NHRC Chairman advises victim to withdraw his case filed against RAB
- Allegations of enforced disappearance after making arrests by law enforcement agencies
- Freedom of the media and of expression
- Political violence
- Violence against Hefazate Islam activists in midnight operation
- Human rights violations along the border by BSF
- Violence against religious and ethnic minority communities
- Meetings and assemblies prohibited
- Situation of workers’ rights
- Imposition of Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
- Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 (Amendment) Bill 2013 passed in Parliament
- Violence against women
- Situation of human rights defenders
- Odhikar observes elections in four City Corporations
human-rights-monitoring-Six Monthly-report-2013-eng (full text in English, pdf)
human-rights-monitoring-Six Monthly-report-2013-bang (full text in Bangla, pdf)
