This human rights monitoring report covers the nine-month period from January to September 2011. The main areas of issue within the report are as follows:
- India-Bangladesh border situation
- Political violence
- Attacks on religious minority communities
- Criminal cases withdrawn out of ‘political consideration’
- Public lynching and police indifference
- Extrajudicial killings
- Torture in custody
- Disappearances
- Attacks on and obstruction of public meetings by imposing Section 144
- Fifteenth Amendment Bill 2011 passed in Parliament
- Anti Terrorism Act of 2009
- The National Human Rights Commission
- Freedom of the media
- Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Workers rights
- Update on the BDR mutiny trials
- Violence against women
- Government’s unwillingness to approve project of Odhikar
The report closes with statistics on violations and a list of 17 recommendations to the government of Bangladesh.
human rights monitoring-monthly report-Jan Sep 2011-eng (full text in English, PDF)
human rights monitoring-monthly report-Jan Sep 2011-ben (full text in Bangla, PDF)
