HR activists protest enforced disappearance
Human rights activists yesterday condemned forcible disappearances and illegal detention of persons without disclosing their whereabouts.
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a network of human rights defenders in South Asia, in a statement urged nationwide protest against the practice of “enforced disappearance”.
They released the statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, which is today.
According to local rights watchdog Odhikar, 67 cases of enforced disappearances have been recorded in Bangladesh since the present government came to power in 2009.
The SAHR statement says that enforced disappearance is a particularly terrible crime as it not only violates several human rights of the victim, including the right to security and the right to a fair trial, but also those of the victim's family.
Odhikar in a separate statement said, "The enforced disappearance of political leaders is an alarming trend and has already thrown Bangladesh into political instability and uncertainties."
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