Rights organisations on Wednesday urged the government to stop giving privileges to accused in enforced disappearance cases.
They made the call at a rally organised outside the International Crimes Tribunal premises in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday morning, protesting at giving alleged privileges to the accused of enforced disappearance and murder cases.
The United for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Voice of Enforced Disappeared Persons, the Odhikar, and families of victims of enforced disappearance held the rally.
They stressed that the government should ensure that law is equal for all and stop giving privileges to the alleged murderers.
The rights bodies held the rally outside the court premises at a time when fifteen accused army officers brought to the ICT in a new air-conditioned prison bus of Bangladesh Prisons at about 7:15am, escorted by police.聽
The accused army officers were later sent to a temporary jail declared for them in the Dhaka cantonment area.
The protesters also demanded security of victims鈥� families and justice for the victims of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing.
Odhikar directors ASM Nasiruddin Elan and Taskin Fahmina and Jatiya Mukti Council general secretary Faizul Hakim Lala spoke at the event.
Fahmina said, 鈥楾he government provided VIP facilities to the murderers who were involved in killing and enforced disappearance of many people during the ousted Awami League regime.鈥�
Syeda Samia Sultana Nipa, wife of Khaled Hossain Sohel who has remained missing since 2013, said that the July uprising that ousted the Awami League regime past year was against any discrimination.
鈥楤ut the interim government, which was formed after the AL ouster, is now creating discrimination among citizens through this trial process while we still do not know whether our family members have died or remained alive,鈥� she said.
Anisha Islam Insha, whose father Ismail Hossain Baten faced enforced disappeared in 2019, said that the privileges proved that the sufferings of mass people would not end even after the July mass uprising.
At the event, some victims of enforced disappearance also spoke about their life at secret torture cells.
