{"id":2601,"date":"2014-04-16T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2022-04-24T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T05:16:05","slug":"alleged-deaths-law-enforcement-officials-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2014\/04\/16\/alleged-deaths-law-enforcement-officials-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"58 Alleged Deaths by Law Enforcement Officials in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>58 People have lost their lives due to torture or death cause by Law Enforcement Agencies.<\/li>\n<li>54 People were killed by &#8221;Crossfire&#8221;, 33 without arrest and 21 in Custody<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8221;Ain o Salish Kendra Executive Director Sultana Kamal said extra judicial killing, widely known as crossfire by the law enforcement agencies, was one of the barriers in establishing good governance in the country.\u00a0Such type of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearance must be stopped immediately, she added&#8221; \u00a0 See Full Story<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cases in 2014<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newagebd.com\/detail.php?date=2014-03-04&amp;nid=85296#.U05CIlWSy8g\">2 Killed in &#8221;Gunfight&#8221; in City House<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newagebd.com\/detail.php?date=2014-01-28&amp;nid=81830#.U04841WSy8g\">Murder, Extrajudicial Killings on the Rise &#8211; Post Election\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhakatribune.com\/politics\/2014\/jan\/27\/fakhrul-extra-judicial-killing-threat-democracy\">Opposition Men Fall Victim to Extra judicial Killing\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhakatribune.com\/law-amp-rights\/2014\/mar\/16\/sultana-kamal-crossfire-threat-humanity-and-good-governance\">Sultana Kamal: Crossfire, a threat to humanity and good governance\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Death-by-Law-Enforcement-Agencies-Q1-2014.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Alleged\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Death-by-Law-Enforcement-Agencies-Q1-2014.pdf\">Death by Law Enforcement Agencies Q1 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>State Responsibility<\/h3>\n<p>In the Universal Periodic Review of Bangladesh, held on 29 April 2013, United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/web\/?p=2606\">Dipu Moni,<\/a>\u00a0Foreign Minister of the Bangladesh government at the time claimed the government had a \u201dZero Tolerance\u201d policy on human rights violations by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also claimed that\u00a0there is no scope for impunity for Law enforcement agencies under Bangladesh laws and the Codes of Conduct and Rules of Engagement of the concerned agencies. Any incident of human rights violation or use of excessive or firearms is subject to investigation, prosecution, legal and disciplinary actions. The Minister reported that 1,678 Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have so far been subjected to prosecution and conviction, including imprisonment and dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The government were \u00a0made numerous recommendations by member states to undertake further steps to effectively investigate alleged human rights violations by Law Enforcing Agencies and to bring to justice to police or other security personnel who were allegedly engaged in acts of brutality and torture<\/p>\n<p>In a National Seminar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2013\/09\/02\/national-seminar\/\">(see details)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0the Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) held on 29 July 2013 with Government representatives, HRBF made the following proposals for the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GOB should acknowledge the incidents of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances and provide clear commitment and procedure to hold those accountable. GOB should also provide time-bound commitment to bring legal reforms to address those human rights violations.<\/li>\n<li>GOB should make commitment specifying the process of establishing an independent commission to ensure transparent and accountable investigation and prosecution of alleged human rights violations by state as well as non-state actors, and reparations for victims.<\/li>\n<li>GOB should commit to initiate both criminal and departmental proceedings immediately after the allegation of human rights violation by LEAs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There has been no response from the government since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>58 People have lost their lives due to torture or death cause by Law Enforcement Agencies. 54 People were killed by &#8221;Crossfire&#8221;, 33 without arrest and 21 in Custody &#8221;Ain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,4,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death-by-law-enforcement","category-slider","category-hr-monitoring","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21927,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/21927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}