DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Awami League get together has expressed grave concern over worsening human rights violations beneath the Muhammad Yunus-led interim authorities, stating that ‘journalists are being hunted like criminals, activists are branded enemies of the state, and peculiar residents dwell in worry of mobs that now dictate justice.
In a report titled “Bangladesh’s Human Rights Disaster: Voices Silenced, Freedoms Crushed, Concern All over the place”, the get together asserted that harassment, arbitrary arrests, and enforced disappearances of journalists, writers, and human rights activists have reached unprecedented ranges throughout Bangladesh.
“Between August 2024 and July 2025, 496 journalists have been subjected to harassment, whereas three misplaced their lives within the line of responsibility. Scores of media employees face fixed threats, courtroom summons, and intimidation, making a local weather the place talking out is a dangerous selection,” the report detailed.
Highlighting the atrocities on journalists throughout the nation following the ouster of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the get together acknowledged that the repression took a darker flip with journalists and writers dragged into courts on “trumped-up homicide and assault costs”, linked to incidents by which that they had no involvement.
In accordance with the report, throughout Dhaka, Sylhet, Chattogram, and dozens of different districts, journalists, each seasoned and native correspondents, have been implicated in “fabricated instances, many tied to previous political unrest”. It added that the sheer scale of those prosecutions, typically citing flimsy or contradictory “witness testimonies,” underscored an organised effort to “criminalize free thought and intimidate the press”.
The get together additional famous that the report documented 258 communal assaults towards minorities in Bangladesh within the first half of 2025.
“In Rangpur district, Hindu households watched helplessly as their properties have been set ablaze, looted, and demolished by frenzied attackers. The assaults weren’t remoted incidents however a part of a sample of focused intimidation, a transparent message that minorities don’t have any assured place of security within the nation. Victims who dared to withstand have been crushed, whereas others fled, compelled into displacement inside their very own homeland,” the report acknowledged.
Citing stories from throughout the nation that reveal a disturbing sample of violence towards ladies in Bangladesh, the get together burdened that ladies are focused not just for their political affiliations or professions, however merely for current outdoors the “slim, suffocating requirements dictated by extremist ideology”.
“Feminine college students and professionals have been attacked for his or her clothes decisions, harassed for talking their minds, and crushed for difficult radical narratives. Even peculiar ladies on the streets should not spared; harassment, assault, and threats have grow to be routine, creating an environment the place survival means silence,” the report added.
Asserting that Bangladeshis can’t combat this alone, the events urged the worldwide neighborhood, together with the UN, human rights our bodies, and worldwide media, to behave earlier than a whole nation drowns in repression.