Please - Odhikar
Please - Odhikar
Please - Odhikar
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Chapter 4<br />
Fact Findings in 2005<br />
One of the main activities under the project was the fact-finding of human rights abuses<br />
perpetrated particularly by law enforcement agencies. Torture, cruel, inhuman or<br />
degrading treatment or punishment, abuse of some specific laws causing human rights<br />
violations, repression against innocent people and application of unnecessary force by law<br />
enforcement agencies were the issues <strong>Odhikar</strong> attempted to bring to light through fact-finding.<br />
<strong>Odhikar</strong> believes that such on spot fact-finding will highlight issues that newspaper reports miss<br />
or might not state in detail.<br />
Newspaper reports and information from grassroots level networks of <strong>Odhikar</strong> s human rights<br />
defenders were the key sources of incidents for fact-finding. <strong>Odhikar</strong> emphasized on those<br />
incidents of human rights violations that have been reported in the newspapers or by grassroots<br />
level human rights defenders, but needed to undertake further enquiry to find out about the<br />
actual abuses faced by the victims, causes and the persons responsible from the law enforcement<br />
agencies. While media focus on human rights violations is more from a journalistic perspective<br />
confined within reporting the incident only, socio-legal perspectives of particular incidents are<br />
attempted to be analyzed in <strong>Odhikar</strong>’s fact-finding process.<br />
For fact-finding, no specific time frame could actually be determined. Among a number of<br />
incidents of police abuse reported, selected incidents were investigated. The nature of severity of<br />
harm caused, vulnerability of the victims (particularly women and children), the nature of abuse<br />
inflicted by perpetrators, location of incident, repercussion among the local people etc. were<br />
taken into consideration when identifying the incidents to be investigated.<br />
The following fact-findings were carried out during 2005. Detailed fact-finding reports are<br />
available in Annex - I.<br />
Fact findings undertaken in 2005:<br />
� Nabi Hossain was hit by Police bullets in Kishorganj<br />
� Two Killed by Coastguards and Forest guards in Laskmipur<br />
� Young man tortured to death by RAB<br />
� Jugantor Photo Journalist tortured by RAB<br />
� RAB personnel involved in robbery of Tk 7.8 lakh from a cattle trader<br />
� Fabricated news about the rape of a young girl by ansar personnel<br />
� Over 100 hundred workers wounded during police shoot-out at Savar EPZ<br />
Report 2005<br />
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