The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to send letters to 19 countries and international human rights organisations, including the United Nations, informing them of rights violations such as police assault on the opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, in Bangladesh. A meeting of the BNP parliamentary party made the decision, opposition lawmakers told New Age on Wednesday night.
The meeting, presided over by the party's chairperson Khaleda Zia, was held in the chairperson's office at Gulshan in Dhaka.
BNP lawmakers Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, Mahbubuddin Khokan, Abul Khair Bhuiyan, Sheikh Sujat Mia, Nilofer Yesmin Chowdhury Moni and Rehena Aktar Ranu, among others, attended.
The meeting, which continued for an hour, decided that the BNPPP would send the letters to the countries and organisations informing them of the police assault on Farroque terming it a serious violation of human rights.
'The party will also request them to take necessary action in this regard,' a BNP lawmaker told New Age.
'Apart from the Farroque incident, the BNP will also inform them of some human rights violation such as extrajudicial killings and repression against opposition leaders,' he said.
Farroque was injured in a police assault on July 6 when he along with party lawmakers was in a procession on Manik Mia Avenue passing by the national assembly complex to enforce nationwide general strike in July 6–7.
Source : New Age
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