Bangladesh requires systemic improvement for misuse of rights: HRW | Human rights news

The NGO has warned that the interim government should work to avoid the return of abuses of rights seen under the former PM.

Bangladesh at the risk of the return of rights given under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina until a strong improvement is made, an international NGO has warned.

The interim government in Bangladesh takes a risk to lose “hard-won progress”, if it does not implement reforms that can face repression by future governments, Human Rights Watch (HRW) a report published on Monday said in.

The report stated that there is a threat to reducing arbitrary arrest and recovery violence for the country’s once-generation opportunity to end the legal abuses seen on Hasina’s watch.

HRW used publishing to urge Dhaka to establish legal prevention practices and canceled laws used to target critics.

“Corrections should be focused on separation of powers and ensuring political neutrality in institutions including civil service, police, military and judiciary,” made this announcement.

Return to abuse

Hasina fled to exile in August, when a large -scale protests ended her in power for 15 years.

An interim government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, has since taken over the country, which pledges to increase democratic reforms and new elections.

Human Rights Watch said the administration of Yunus has started the process of improving insults used as a tool to persecute Hasina’s Awami League party opponents.

But it was also revealed that in targeting pre-pre-preventive supporters, the police “returned to the derogatory practices of the previous government”.

According to the report, family members of those killed by security forces have been pressurized to sign the documents of the case.

The rights group also highlighted action against journalists to support Hasina’s government with allegations of at least 140 murder.

Responsible

Ellen Piercene, director of Asia, Human Rights Watch, said, “Around 1,000 Bangladeshis lost their lives while fighting for democracy, began a historic opportunity to create a right-respecting future in Bangladesh.”

“This hard-winning progress can all lose if the interim government does not create swift and structural reforms that can face any suppression by future governments.”

HRW recommended that the government seek help from the UN rights experts to ensure permanent reforms.

Yunus’s government has not yet commented on the report.

The 84 -year -old has inherited a “fully broken” system of public administration and justice, which requires a broad overhaul to prevent future return to the government’s abuses.

After his swearing in in August, he told reporters: “Bangladesh is a family. We have to unite it. is most likely. ,

However, he has also said that those who had done wrong things during Hasina’s tenure will be “held accountable”.