US report on human rights is shameful: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that the information that has come out in the global human rights report of the US State Department about the democracy and human rights situation in Bangladesh is a shame for us.

He said this at a function organized on the occasion of the death anniversary of former BNP Secretary General, KM Obaidur Rahman at the Auditorium of Engineers Institute in the capital.

Mirza Fakhrul said, "Today Bangladesh has reached such a stage that the United States has given a report on human rights and I am ashamed to read it. In their report, there is no trace of democracy and human rights in Bangladesh. A terrible image has been presented in this report."

"The Awami League government wants to establish a one-party BaKSAL rule. For that purpose, they have destroyed all the democracy. Minimum human rights have been taken away", said the BNP Secretary General.

In the report, the United States highlighted several facts including disappearances of people, extrajudicial killings, government-initiated torture-cruelty, political prisoners, and obstruction of freedom of expression through internet.

International and local legal experts have said there is a lack of sufficient evidence to convict BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. According to these legal experts, the trial and sentence was a political ploy to remove Khaleda Zia from the electoral process.