UNB, Dhaka :
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that basic human rights have got obliterated in Bangladesh with the disappearance of rule of law.
In a statement, she said, “In the countries where authoritarian governing system has been introduced snatching people’s voting rights and destroying democracy, the rulers there resort to repressive acts to hang onto power by suppressing the opposition, and Bangladesh is no exception.”
The statement signed by party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon was issued on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Friday with a call for standing in solidarity with all affected people as well as their families and communities.
Khaleda said a good number of opposition leaders and activists were killed, abducted and made disappeared since the current regime assumed office. She alleged that the government in a fascist style
contained the movement waged for pressing the demand for holding the national election under a caretaker government. “Still, many opposition leaders and activists remained missing. Around 50,000 opposition men are going through unbearable time in jails, while thousands more are on the run facing false cases.”
“Even alem ulema (Islamic scholars) were not spared from killing. Under the circumstances, the rule of law is now absent in the country and the basic human rights are missing,” Khaleda observed. She expressed her solidarity with all the torture victims both at home and abroad, and said, “A united effort by all democracy-loving people will ensure the defeat of the evil forces working against humanity.”
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that basic human rights have got obliterated in Bangladesh with the disappearance of rule of law.
In a statement, she said, “In the countries where authoritarian governing system has been introduced snatching people’s voting rights and destroying democracy, the rulers there resort to repressive acts to hang onto power by suppressing the opposition, and Bangladesh is no exception.”
The statement signed by party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon was issued on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Friday with a call for standing in solidarity with all affected people as well as their families and communities.
Khaleda said a good number of opposition leaders and activists were killed, abducted and made disappeared since the current regime assumed office. She alleged that the government in a fascist style
contained the movement waged for pressing the demand for holding the national election under a caretaker government. “Still, many opposition leaders and activists remained missing. Around 50,000 opposition men are going through unbearable time in jails, while thousands more are on the run facing false cases.”
“Even alem ulema (Islamic scholars) were not spared from killing. Under the circumstances, the rule of law is now absent in the country and the basic human rights are missing,” Khaleda observed. She expressed her solidarity with all the torture victims both at home and abroad, and said, “A united effort by all democracy-loving people will ensure the defeat of the evil forces working against humanity.”
