From Our Member Odhikar, Bangladesh – Human Rights Monitor Report (January 2018)
5 February 2018 11:10 am

FORUM-ASIA member from Bangladesh, Odhikar, published its monthly human rights monitor report. The January 2018 report focuses on the following:

  • Criminalization of politics and violence
  • Mass arrest of opposition party activists, suppression and hindrance to freedom of assembly
  • Dhaka North and South City Corporation polls stayed
  • Extrajudicial killings
  • Death in jail
  • Torture, inhuman treatment and lack of accountability
  • Enforced disappearances
  • Public lynching
  • ‘Extremism’ and human rights
  • Independence of the Judiciary
  • Interference on freedom of expression and the media
  • Cabinet approves the draft Digital Security Act 2018
  • Workers’ rights
  • Violence against Women
  • Aggressive policy of Indian government towards Bangladesh
  • Genocide against Rohingya people in Myanmar
  • Activities of Odhikar hindered

For a PDF version of this report, click here.