BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly urge to Bangladesh Government to repeal the provision of death penalty in the existing law.

On the occasion of the 20th World Abolition of Death Penalty Day 2022, Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have called for the abolition of all clauses containing the provision of death penalty in the existing laws in Bangladesh. Today, on October 10, 2022, BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh urged to the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to abolish death penalty.

Advocate Shahanur Islam, Secretary General of JusticeMakers Bangladesh and BIHR, has demanded for life imposing life imprisonment in serious crimes instead of death penalty to avoid cruel, inhuman and humiliating punishments like death penalty.

বাংলাদেশে প্রচলিত আইনে মৃর্ত্যুদণ্ডের বিধান সম্বলিত ধারাসমূহ রদ ও রহিত করার জোড় দাবী জানিয়েছে বিআইএইচআর এবং জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ।

বিশ্ব মৃর্ত্যুদণ্ড বিলোপ দিবস ২০২২ উপলক্ষে বাংলাদেশে প্রচলিত আইনে মৃর্ত্যুদণ্ডের বিধান সম্বলিত সকল ধারা বিলোপের আহবান জানিয়েছেন মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান বাংলাদেশ ইন্সটিটিউট অব হিউম্যান রাইটস (বি আই এইচ আর) এবং জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ। আজ ১০ অক্টোবর ২০২২ খ্রীষ্টাব্দ তারিখে বি আই এইচ আর এবং জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ উক্ত দাবী জানান। 

জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ এবং বি আই এইচ আর এর মহাসচিব প্রখ্যাত মানবাধিকার আইনজীবী অ্যাডভোকেট শাহানূর ইসলাম সৈকত মৃর্ত্যুদণ্ডের মত নিষ্ঠুর,অমানবিক ও অবমাননাকর শাস্তি প্রদান হতে বিরত থেকে গুরুত্বর অপরাধের ক্ষেত্রে যাবজ্জীবন শাস্তি প্রদানের আহবান জানিয়েছে।

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh are deeply concerned over physical assault against a sexual minority homosexual gay teenager boy in Dhaka

Bangladeshi Human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed deep concern over the recent case of physically assault and extortion after wrongfully confinement of a homosexual gay minority youth boy in Mirpur area of ​​Dhaka.

At the same time, BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded that all the criminals directly or indirectly involved in the incident should be quickly identified and arrested and given exemplary punishment with due process.

CCBE Letter to PM: Continuous threats and harassment against lawyer Shahanur Islam

Subject: Continuous threats and harassment against lawyer Shahanur Islam

Your Excellency,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 46 countries, and through them more than 1 million European lawyers. The CCBE places great emphasis on respect for human rights and the rule of law and is particularly concerned with the situation of human rights defenders around the world.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh gravely concern over the recent killing of Transgender in the Capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers are gravely concern over the killing of transgender at Dhaka in Bangladesh.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh urge the concern authority of Bangladesh to arrest all the culprits who were involved with the said brutal murder of transgender and bring the culprits before the book after quick and impartial investigation.  

According to the news published online version of New Age on 30 September 2022 that a member of the transgender community was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Paribagh area early Friday.  Nila,( 24), was stabbed by two youths on the footbridge at Paribagh at around 1:30am, police said.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh are concerned over the handover of two lesbian girls to the police station in Tangail.

Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed deep concern over the recent handover of two homosexual lesbian girls from the Kazi office to the policemen in Tangail city.

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded that two sexual minority lesbian girls in Tangail city, who were handed over to the local police station by the provocation of local homophobic people from the Kazi office, should quickly identify and arrest the accused criminals and conduct an impartial and transparent investigation and trial and provide exemplary punishment to those responsible.