The Hague, The
Netherlands
URGENT
APPEAL: Bangladesh:
A 15-year old indigenous girl gang-raped [UA-BA-01.03.2010]
ISSUES: Rights
of minorities, personal integrity, abduction; gang-rape
Dear
Friends,
Global Human Rights Defence
(GHRD) is very concerned regarding the news we received from the Bangladesh
Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) about the gang-rape of an indigenous 15-year
old girl.
The girl was abducted outside of
her home, on the 26th of February, by five local Bengali leaders at Bandra
village in Moddhonagar police station under Sunamgong district, according to
their investigation. The girl was taken to a nearby river where she was
repeatedly raped until she became unconscious. When she was found later that
evening she was still unconscious. On the 27th February the girl’s family tried
to lodge a complaint against the perpetrators at Moddhonagar Police station, but
the officer in charge refused to file it.