Bangladesh: HRW urges Bangladesh to bring the ‘disappeared’ back

DHAKA, 10 December 2021, (TON): Human Rights Watch said, marking the International Human Rights Day that Bangladesh authorities should stop tormenting families and provide information on the whereabouts of their loved ones disappeared by security forces.

Human Rights Watch has documented 86 cases of victims in Bangladesh who were forcibly disappeared since 2009 when the Sheikh Hasina-led government took office, and who remain missing.

The Bangladesh government has repeatedly denied that security forces’ routinely commit enforced disappearances.

‘The Bangladesh government should mark International Human Rights Day by welcoming an independent international investigation into the whereabouts of the victims of enforced disappearance who remain missing,’ said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

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