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number of those cases or the laws under which they were filed. A case of unnatural death (number 22,dated 19/08/05) was filed in Lalbagh police station by Suman's father Abdul Malek. The investigating officer of the case is SI Hafizul Haque Prodhan. When contacted, he told Odhikar that an investigation was going on and refused to give any information on the findings. He added that the finding of the investigation would be dependent on the findings of the post mortem report. Suman's post mortem was done in Dhaka Medical College Hospital from where it has been gathered that Suman died due to an electric shock, not due to any torture. Allegation of Involvement of a Police Officer Behind the Killing of a College Student in Dhaka On 14 September 2005, there was a newspaper report titled "Killing of College Student Kamrul Islam Momen: Allegation of Involvement of Rafiqul Islam, the officer-in-charge of the Motijheel Police Station." Odhikar conducted a fact-finding of the incident and talked to local inhabitants, relatives of the victim, Kafrul police station officers and high officials of the police department. Father of the victim, Abdur Razzak informed Odhikar that they lived at 155, North Ibrahimpur under Kafrul police station. The number of his neighboring home was 154 owned by Rafiqul Islam, the officer-in-charge (OC) of Motijheel police station. He bought that piece of land 5/6 years ago. There was no dispute between Abdur Razzak and the former owner of the neighboring land. But as soon as OC Rafiqul Islam bought the land, disputes regarding land demarcations started between him and Abdur Razzak. Abdur Razzak further stated that when he constructed a boundary wall on his own land, the OC Rafiq demolished it using some local miscreants. He alleged that Rafiq had good relations with an alleged top criminal, Taj, who very often threatened him and his sons. Taj said to them over telephone, "OC Rafiqul Islam is my elder brother, if you get into trouble with him, I will kill your whole family." Abdur Razzak further said that previously he fixed several dates to sit and to solve dispute but OC Rafiq never turned up on those days and rather continued to threaten his family. On receiving threats from OC Rafiq, Abur Razzak complained to the State Minister for Home Affairs, Police Commissioner of Dhaka and RAB but with no result. He alleged that criminals had killed his son Momen at the instruction of OC Rafiq. Elder brother of Momen, Saiful Islam told Odhikar that his younger brother was a third year graduate student of Management Studies at Dhaka Commerce College. On 13 September 2005 at around 7 am, he went out and after going a few yards, he was shot by criminals near house # 178. He embraced death after being taken to hospital. OC Rafiq himself, and Taj, regularly threatened them. Since OC Rafiq bought the plot next to their own home, he started demanding part of their plot. Despite repeated proposals to sit to discuss and solve the issue, OC Rafiq ignored them and threatened to acquire part of their plot. After killing Momen, he continued to threaten them to withdraw the case filed against him. In the face of continued threats Shamsul Islam, the other elder brother of Momen, filed a general diary (GD # 980) in Kafrul police Report 2005 139
station. He further said that previously they had filed three general diaries in Kafrul police station seeking police security but got no help from them. He added that criminals not only threatened them on behalf of OC Rafiq but also demanded money from them. After the death of Momen, the other members of the family have become concerned about their own security because of OC Rafiq being the first accused in the case. Local inhabitant, Faridur Rahman, informed Odhikar that Kamrul Islam Momen was a very gentle and modest person. He also knew about the land boundary dispute between the victim's family and OC Rafiq. He opined that due to that dispute, Momen might have been killed by criminals associated with OC Rafiq. The second officer of Motijheel police station, SI Sharafatullah informed Odhikar that OC Rafiq has been closed and the case was being investigated by Additional Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Faruq Ahmed. The investigating officer informed Odhikar that investigation was going on and declined to give any information on the findings before the investigation was over. He commented that if OC Rafiq's involvement in the incident is proved departmental action would be taken against him. The officer-in-charge of Kafrul police station Molla Nazrul Islam informed Odhikar that the victim's father Abdur Razzak filed a murder case (Case # 17, dated 13/09/05, Sections 302/34/109 Penal Code) against 26 accused persons. The main accused of the case is Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Motijheel police station. He further stated that on 14 September 2005, nine of the accused were arrested and taken into remand for interrogation, drives were going on to arrest the other accused. The second officer of Kafrul police station Nasimul Islam was investigating the case. He also said that adequate security measures had been taken to provide protection to Momen's family. On 2 October, OC Rafiq was suspended from his position 'Mysterious' Death of a Person in Police Custody in Gaibandha. The victim Shamsul Haque (55) hailed from village Borogobindpur of Polashbari Thana of Gaibandha District. He was married and had a daughter. He was working as a peon in the office of a construction company in Dhaka. On 9 October, Polashbari police arrested him (with assistance from Motijheel Police Station of Dhaka) from Dhaka as an unidentified accused person in connection with a case under the Woman and Child Repression Act. He was taken to Polashbari Police Station at around 11 pm the same evening. Since the court was already closed, he was kept in the police station. On 10 October, when he was about to be sent to court, he fell ill. Police took him to Polashbari Health Complex from where it was recommended that he be transferred to Rangpur Medical College Hospital for better treatment. Accordingly, he was taken to Rangpur Medical College Hospital and admitted in the medicine department there. During treatment, he died on 16 October 2005. His post mortem was done there and the dead body was handed over to his family. Shamsul Huq's wife informed Odhikar that her brother had fled with a girl of the locality called Jannatul Khatun and got married. A case was filed in that regard by the girl's family where the 140 Report 2005
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Odhikar Report 2005 Published by Od
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2005 sees the third, and final year
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Synopsis of Activities Covering the
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laws of Bangladesh, particularly th
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they find the monitor writing notes
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Problems faced during thana monitor
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After the 2004 High Court directive
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(4) Sumon Tortured to Death by Rapi
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22 Persons Reportedly Killed by Law
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iii. Conflicts with political right
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Chapter-3 Odhikar's work involving
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Environment of the custody cell Fin
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Police’s behavior towards accused
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4. Motijheel Thana During the monit
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In all, the findings from the monit
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Children were seen kept with the ad
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1. If any domestic animal is slaugh
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Chapter 4 Fact Findings in 2005 One
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General findings It becomes difficu
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Recognising the need for laws to pr
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* Second Working Session (2:00-4:00
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focus on legal agencies and human r
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due to insecurity providing protect
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We are in such a situation that you
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the whole judicial system. Ensuring
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threatening looks or gestures at a
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concrete suggestions to how to disc
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force against basic freedoms and hu
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Leave us alone. We will get on with
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cultivating and having their liveli
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own judicial system. It is a proble
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name of eviction, etc., but also be
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Farhad Mazhar: Some of the suggesti
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come to terms with the emotional im
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ecourses, a strong commitment of th
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initiative, SAARC cooperation, SAAR
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� Police and even powerful local
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* To facilitate bilateral agreement
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grievous offences like rape, murder
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see how the press, the police and p
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2. Victims must be given some compe
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witness are determined by the conse
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is valid because the society is mor
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necessary. Such action plan calls f
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Protection to witnesses The State p
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Monitoring of the protocol The Stat
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attention. Victims have the right t
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Nepal's Human Rights Obligations un
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