Three-Month Human Rights Monitoring Report on Bangladesh : July – September 2023

The human rights situation in Bangladesh has taken a dire shape due to the authoritarian regime, which has been in power for almost 15 years – including 10 years without peoples’ mandate; and involved in gross human rights violations, targeting political opponents, dissidents and human rights defenders and gagging freedoms of expression. Odhikar has prepared the human rights report for the months of July-September 2023 based on the reports sent by the human rights defenders associated with the Organisation from different parts of the country, and reports published in various media. Due to the conviction of Odhikar leadership for human rights reporting and the constant surveillance and harassment by the government, Odhikar is forced to practice some level of self-censorship even in the publication of its reports.