BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh are concerned over the harassment of four lesbian girls at Jamalpur.

Human rights organization Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed extreme concern and protest over the harassment of four young lesbian girls for declaration of marriage with same-sex in Sarishabari under Jamalpur district.

BIHR and Justicemakers Bangladesh believe that the harassment of four homosexual youth girls on charge of marry with same-sex is a clear violation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

The news published on September 21, 2022 in various newspapers including the online version of Ekatar TV, Daily Jugantar and BanglaNews24.com sated that a girl married another girl in Hatbari village of Doyle Union in Sarishabari, Jamalpur. Local peoples have handed over two young girls and their two accomplices to the police on charges of same-sex marriage.

ধামুইরহাটে প্রতিমা ভাঙচুর ও অগ্নি সংযোগের ঘটনায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্টান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশের উদ্বেগ ও প্রতিবাদ!

নওগাঁর ধামুইরহাটে অজ্ঞাতনামা দুর্বৃত্ত কর্তৃক কালী মন্দিরের প্রতিমা ভাঙচুর ও অগ্নি সংযোগের ঘটনায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ গভীর উদ্বেগ ও প্রতিবাদ জানিয়েছে।

অজ্ঞাতনামা দূর্বৃত্ত কর্তৃক ধামুইরহাটের কালী মন্দিরের প্রতিমা ভাঙচুর ও অগ্নি সংযোগের ঘটনা বাংলাদেশের সকল ধর্মের নাগরিকের মৌলিক মানবাধিকার স্বাধীনভাবে ধর্ম পালনের অধিকারের ওপর সরাসরি হুমকি বলে মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ মনে করে।

জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ এর প্রতিষ্টাতা মহাসচিব ও বিশিষ্ট মানবাধিকার আইনজীবী অ্যাডভোকেট শাহানূর ইসলাম সৈকত উক্ত ঘটনার দ্রুত নিরপেক্ষ তদন্তপূর্বক দায়ীদের চিহ্নিত করে দৃষ্টান্তমূলক শাস্তি প্রদানের দাবী জানিয়েছে।

Bangladeshi activist Shahanur has received repeated death threats!

Desk report

Shahanur Islam, a prominent human rights lawyer and gay rights campaigner in Bangladesh received repeated death threats SMS over his mobile phone.

Shahanur told to Soja Kotha that recently on 25th August and 6th September 2022, he received separate two death threats messages along with his wife and kid over his mobile phone.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh express their deep concern about the disturbance in the area over the love of a sexual minority lesbian girl in Lakshipur.

Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed their deep concern over the recent chaos about the incident of same-sex love and marriage of two homosexual lesbian teenagers came to light in Lakshipur district.

BIHR and JusticeMakers of Bangladesh strongly demanded that the accused persons involved in endangering the personal safety and security of the sexual minority lesbian teenagers in Sadar Upazila of Lakshipur district by exposing their love and marriage incidents should be quickly identified, arrested, and impartially investigated, and the perpetrators should be given exemplary punishment at the end of a speedy and transparent trial process. 

Bangladeshi Human Rights Lawyer Shahanur Islam Received Repeated Death Threats!

Shahanur Islam, a prominent human rights lawyer and gay rights campaigner in Bangladesh received repeated death threats SMS over his mobile phone.

Recently on 25th August and 6th September 2022, he received separate two death threats messages along with his wife and kid over his mobile phone. 

On 25th August 2022 around at 10:17 pm BST, Mr. Islam received threats message in English language over his phone from an unidentified number. The message states that if you don’t stop fighting aims to establishment of homosexual rights in BD, immediately you will be killed along with your family members brutally.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh extremely concern over the order to refrain from taking classes to the homosexual teacher of Savar Model College.

Human rights organizations BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed extreme concern and protest over the order not to take classes to a homosexual teacher of Savar Model College.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh believe that because of being a teacher of  homosexual nature, refrain him from taking classes is a clear violation of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, due to students protest patronized by the homophobic people.

On 28 and 29 August 2022, the news published in various electronic and print media revealed that the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) has ordered Ramzan Ali, a homosexual teacher, to refrain from taking classes due to continued students' agitation in Savar Model College.