Friday, 26 August 2011

Violation of human rights in police custody rampant

Md Abdul Kader, a student of Dhaka University,was too injured to move alone because of police torture and he had to beproduced before a High Court bench on a wheel chair on July 28.

In the court, Kader described how police tortured himbrutally in custody, violating human rights (HR).
In fact, violation of human rights in police custody hasbecome a regular phenomenon in the country, ignoring a HC judgment passed eightyears ago. The constitutional and the international covenantal safeguards toprevent torture are also being violated in the police custody, according tolegal experts.

Experts blamed the high ups of the state for consideringthemselves above law and such disregard for law is slowly leading the countryto a failed state.

Supreme Court lawyer died in police custody: severe torture alleged, judicial probe demaned


Failing to bear alleged torture in police custody, detained pro-BNP lawyer Advocate Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed died on Friday after passing 15 days in critical condition in Bangladesh.

MU Ahmed, 57, died at 1 pm at Square Hospital in the city. He fell in a massive heart attack short after police picked him up from his Segunbagicha residence at 1:30 am on August 11 in two separate police cases.

His wife Selina Ahmed said he was quite well when police arrested him and alleged against law enforcers of severely torturing him while police claimed that he suffered heart attack after arrest.