GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENCE-GHRD
Case number: BA-HRD-02.06.2009
Country: Bangladesh
Last name: Islam
First name: Shahanur
Type of Violation:
Submitted to: United Nations Special Procedures Division – Human Rights Defenders
Date of Submission to the UN: 16 May 2008
GHRD Contact: Jenny Lundström, Roger Lloret Blackburn
1. Identity of the victim:
Name: Shahanur Islam Saikot
Position: Secretary General and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Human Rights and Development, Coordinator of Centre for Human Rights Fact Finding & Research, Programme Officer of Legal and Human Rights Affairs at the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights and Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma Victims, as well as a member of the Bangladesh Bar Council and Bar Association in Dhaka District.
Citizenship: Bangladeshi
Work address: Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights,
27 Bijoy Nagar
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
2. Date and place of event:
Date: 28 April at about 3 p.m.
Location: In front of court chief judicial magistrate court ground in Shariyatpur District.
3. Alleged perpetrator(s):
Mr. Anis, Member of the Rapid Action Battalion in Madaripur, and other unidentified group of around 7 members of the Rapid Action Battalion.
4. Case Documents:
Document: Date:
N/A
Date: June 18, 2009
