UNB, Dhaka :
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based rights body, has urged the Bangladeshi authorities to guarantee all the due process rights of two detainees-Hasanat Karim and Tahmid Khan-who had been held hostage by armed gunmen during siege on the Holey Artisan Bakery. The two men were initially held for questioning by authorities but have neither been charged with nor released. All the hostages, except Karim, 47, and Khan, 22, were
released on July 3. Their families have had little or no official information about their safety and whereabouts since. They have been allowed to send medicines and clothes, but are unsure if those were delivered to the detainees, said the rights body in a statement.
The detainees have not been produced promptly before a judge, a right enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Bangladesh is a party, it said.
“The attack on the café was a horrific event, and the authorities should conduct thorough investigations by questioning those held hostage – but they must do so in a rights-respecting manner,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based rights body, has urged the Bangladeshi authorities to guarantee all the due process rights of two detainees-Hasanat Karim and Tahmid Khan-who had been held hostage by armed gunmen during siege on the Holey Artisan Bakery. The two men were initially held for questioning by authorities but have neither been charged with nor released. All the hostages, except Karim, 47, and Khan, 22, were
released on July 3. Their families have had little or no official information about their safety and whereabouts since. They have been allowed to send medicines and clothes, but are unsure if those were delivered to the detainees, said the rights body in a statement.
The detainees have not been produced promptly before a judge, a right enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Bangladesh is a party, it said.
“The attack on the café was a horrific event, and the authorities should conduct thorough investigations by questioning those held hostage – but they must do so in a rights-respecting manner,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
