Odhikar details 12 deaths took place between August 9 and December 31, 2024, in report
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\nAt least a dozen people died in detention in Bangladesh since last year\u2019s revolution, including by torture and gunshot wounds, a rights group said Wednesday.
\nOdhikar, one of the South Asian nation\u2019s largest human rights organisations, demanded justice from the interim government that took over after the student-led revolution that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
\n\u201cThe interim government should not let these crimes go unpunished,\u201d Odhikar director ASM Nasiruddin Elan told AFP. \u201cThose involved in extrajudicial killings must be brought to justice.\u201d
\nOdhikar detailed in a report how security forces during Hasina\u2019s 15-year-long autocratic rule engaged in widespread killings to bolster her power \u2014 and accused the same agencies of continuing to commit human rights violations since she fled.
\nHasina escaped into exile to neighbouring India on August 5, capping an uprising in which the United Nations says more than 1,400 people could have been killed, and has since defied an arrest warrant to face trial for crimes against humanity.
\nSince she left, Bangladeshi security forces have carried out sweeping arrests against supporters of Hasina\u2019s Awami League party and loyalists of what they dub her \u201cfascist\u201d ex-government.
\nOdhikar detailed 12 deaths that took place between August 9 and December 31, 2024.
\nBangladesh\u2019s security forces are \u201cinvestigating all the cases\u201d, Sami-Ud-Dowla Chowdhury, the armed forces\u2019 public relations director, told AFP.
\n\u2018Right to justice\u2019
\n\u201cEven the friends of the fascist regime have a right to justice,\u201d Elan said. \u201cExtrajudicial killings must be prevented at any cost\u201d. Three of them were in police custody, and the others were under the control of other security units, including the armed forces and much-feared paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
\nAt least seven victims died after torture, and four had gunshot wounds, according to Odhikar. Another person was beaten and later pushed off a bridge by the police, it added.
\nAmong the cases was the death of 18-year-old Elahi Sikdar from the city of Gopalganj, who was arrested for allegedly attacking soldiers. His injured corpse was later recovered from a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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