BANGLADESH ALERT: Four Battery-Run Rickshaw Owners-Workers’ Leaders Sentenced to Imprisonment

JMBF Expresses Grave Concern over Rapid Sentencing and Calls for Their Immediate Release

Paris, France | 6 October 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses grave concern over the arrest of four leaders associated with the Battery-Run Rickshaw Owners-Workers’ Unity Council in the Sabujbagh area of Dhaka and their subsequent sentencing to six months’ rigorous imprisonment.

BANGLADESH ALERT: JMBF Calls for Independent Investigation into Female Garment Worker’s Death and Police Violence in Gazipur

Paris, France | 28 June 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses its profound concern, strong condemnation, and outrage over the baton charge, the deployment of sound grenades, and the excessive use of force by the Industrial Police against peacefully assembled garment workers in Tepirbari, Sreepur Upazila, Gazipur, following the death of a female garment worker, leaving at least 12 workers injured on 27 June 2026.