URGENT APPEAL: [UPDATE]
BANGLADESH:UPDATE Ensure the protection of human rights defender: Shahanur Islam Saikot.[UA-BA-2009-08-18]
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ISSUES: Threats, death threats to human rights defenders; impunity
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BANGLADESH: Ensure the protection of human rights defender: Shahanur Islam Saikot.
Dear Friends,
Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) would like to update you on the recent developments in the case of Shahanur Islam, a human rights defender and lawyer in Bangladesh. We are pleased to inform you that a police investigation has been initiated into the threats made against Mr Islam. However, there has also been a new recent incident of intimidation on August 16, 2009. Mr. Islam received another intimidating phone call, this time threatening him with imprisonment and with the false implication in a criminal case.