Six women, including three leaders of the National Citizen Party, on Monday served a legal notice on the Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh over the allegation of calling members of the women affairs reform commission ‘prostitutes’ publicly.
The six women are NCP leaders Syeda Nilima Dola, Dyuti Aranno Chowdhury and Nila Afroz, and writers Umme Raihana, Umme Farhana and Kameliya Sharmin Chura, said a statement signed by Nilima and Dyuti.
They alleged that Hefazat leaders used the abusive term for women at a rally held at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital Dhaka on Saturday.
‘There is no room for this kind of oppression against women in the new Bangladesh,’ they said in the statement. They said that women also made an important contribution to the July uprising and it was believed that the new Bangladesh would be for everyone.
‘There is room for disagreement with the proposals by the women’s affairs reform commission, but there is no room for abuse,’ the statement said.
Earlier, the Hefazat-e-Islam on Saturday demanded the immediate cancellation of the women affairs reform commission and its report, condemning the report as anti-Quran.
Meanwhile, the National Women Repression Prevention Forum on Monday condemned the misogynistic propaganda and statements made over the demand of cancellation of the women affairs reform commission by the Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh.
Condemning the beating of woman’s effigy with shoes at the Dhaka University premises, the women rights body said that such incidents were creating obstacles to women’s rights.
