At the same time, Justice Makers Bangladesh strongly demanded that the culprits
involved in the incident should be
bring before the book after quick and impartial investigation.
According to the news published in the online newspaper risingbd.com on November 2, 2022 AD, it is known that 30 students have written a complaint to the Upazila Nirbahi Officer against Aminul Islam, the senior lecturer of the geography department of Bhalum Ataur Rahman Khan Degree College in Dhamrai, Dhaka seeking remedy for homosexuality.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer and president of the
governing body of the college, Hossain Mohammad Hi Joki formed a five-member
investigation committee based on the students' complaints. Later, after
receiving the statements of the victim students, another lecturer of the college,
Habibur Rahman Habib, the head of the investigation committee, submitted the
report on 3rd October.
Lecturer Habibur Rahman Habib said, 'what I found
in the investigation cannot be expressed in words. After talking to the
affected students we submitted the investigation report 20 days ago. I have
found the truth of the complaints of the victims against that lecturer.
In this context, the acting principal of the
college Main Uddin said, 'Students have written a complaint against that
teacher to UNO'. As a result, he will decide on this matter. He did not
complain to me.
Dhamrai Upazila Executive Officer Mohammad Hai
Joki said, 'We have received complaints. It is in process. You will know the
result soon.'
Founder Secretary General of JusticeMakers
Bangladesh and eminent lawyer and gay rights activist Advocate Shahanur Islam has expressed strong
protest over the attempt to expel the said teacher from college just because of being a sexual minority.
Besides, Advocate Shahanur Islam thought that the
incident of inciting the students to file a complaint against the said teacher
because of hiis being only
sexual minorities is gender-based discrimination and a clear violation of the
fundamental human rights declared by the United Nations.
He also said that 14 years ago, a teacher of the Islamic Education Department
of Savar Model College, Ramzan Ali, was instructed to refrain from taking
classes by inciting students to hold a march meeting and boycott classes last
August due to allegations of homosexuality.
Moreover, in last May, Mizanur Rahman, a teacher
of Pharmacy department of Barisal Institute of Health Technology, was given
temporary suspension after he was accused of proposing homosexuality to
students.
Advocate Shahanur Islam believes that those incidents are not an isolated incidents in Bangladesh, rather only a small part of the discrimination,
murder, injuries and human rights violations committed against the homosexual
minority throughout Bangladesh.
Advocate Shahanur Islam thinks that the people of
the sexually minority homosexual community are
constantly discriminated against and subjected to various human rights
violations from family to society and from society
to state, but most of them remain invisible to the public due to social
unacceptability and intolerance.
============================================================ Advocate Shahanur Islam | An Young, Ascendant, Dedicated Human Rights Defender, Lawyer and Blogger in Bangladesh, Fighting for Ensuring Human Rights, Rule of Law, Good Governance, Peace and Social Justice For the Victim of Torture, Extra Judicial Killing, Force Disappearance, Trafficking in Persons including Ethnic, Religious, Sexual and Social Minority People.
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