UNB, Dhaka :
People’s rights cannot be conceived without the existence of the rule of law, in any given territory, said a special edition of the quarterly journal of Hong Kong-based rights group Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC).
This special edition of ALRC quarterly journal focuses on the criminal justice and law-enforcement institutions and their relationships with existing political practices in Bangladesh.
The ALRC is an independent regional non-governmental organisation holding general consultative status with the Economic
and Social Council of the United Nations. The ALRC report contains information on 47 cases of torture, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, fabrication of criminal charges, acid attacks, sexual violence, non-investigation, and refusal to provide justice from all parts of Bangladesh. These cases have been documented by the ALRC’s sister organization, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), since 2009 when Bangladesh reportedly began its journey from a military-controlled emergency rule to an elected democracy. The Hong Kong-based ALRC seeks to strengthen and encourage positive action on legal and human rights issues at the local and national levels throughout Asia. The cases substantiate the patterns of violation of people’s rights and the inability or refusal of criminal justice institutions to provide remedies to victims. They reveal the real state of Bangladesh, a country unable to uphold the rule of law.
An article analysing four cases of the state’s repressions illustrates the true character of the state machineries of Bangladesh.
The remaining sections of the report complement the cases, and include two articles by academic scholars Mainul Ahsan Khan and Saira Rahman Khan. The articles discuss the constitutional stature and legal standing of Bangladesh following the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, and protecting vested interests at the cost of fundamental rights. ALRC’s Programme Coordinator Md. Ashrafuzzaman analyses the condition of Bangladesh in light of the normative standards of the rule of law. He exposes how the state apparatus acts towards citizens while undermining the rule of law.
People’s rights cannot be conceived without the existence of the rule of law, in any given territory, said a special edition of the quarterly journal of Hong Kong-based rights group Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC).
This special edition of ALRC quarterly journal focuses on the criminal justice and law-enforcement institutions and their relationships with existing political practices in Bangladesh.
The ALRC is an independent regional non-governmental organisation holding general consultative status with the Economic
and Social Council of the United Nations. The ALRC report contains information on 47 cases of torture, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, fabrication of criminal charges, acid attacks, sexual violence, non-investigation, and refusal to provide justice from all parts of Bangladesh. These cases have been documented by the ALRC’s sister organization, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), since 2009 when Bangladesh reportedly began its journey from a military-controlled emergency rule to an elected democracy. The Hong Kong-based ALRC seeks to strengthen and encourage positive action on legal and human rights issues at the local and national levels throughout Asia. The cases substantiate the patterns of violation of people’s rights and the inability or refusal of criminal justice institutions to provide remedies to victims. They reveal the real state of Bangladesh, a country unable to uphold the rule of law.
An article analysing four cases of the state’s repressions illustrates the true character of the state machineries of Bangladesh.
The remaining sections of the report complement the cases, and include two articles by academic scholars Mainul Ahsan Khan and Saira Rahman Khan. The articles discuss the constitutional stature and legal standing of Bangladesh following the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, and protecting vested interests at the cost of fundamental rights. ALRC’s Programme Coordinator Md. Ashrafuzzaman analyses the condition of Bangladesh in light of the normative standards of the rule of law. He exposes how the state apparatus acts towards citizens while undermining the rule of law.
