Bangladesh: Review Laws and Protect Human Rights Standards

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Members of Bangladesh’s paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, a unit which is accused of enforced disappearances, stand guard in the capital Dhaka, January 7, 2024. © 2024 Sazzad Hossain / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (New York) – Recent legislative initiatives by Bangladesh’s interim government risk undermining fundamental freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead of pursuing its pledge to reform the criminal justice system and bring accountability for serious abuses, the government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is attempting to suppress…

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