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.