Statement: JusticeMakers Bangladesh concerns over viciously attacked on lawyer Abdur Rashid Mollah at Dhaka

The JusticeMakers Bangladesh gravely concerns over the incident of viciously attacked on lawyer Abdur Rashid Mollah at Dhaka on 14 January 2023.

JusticeMakers Bangladesh simultaneously called the government for arrest the all accused culprits and ensure the exemplary punishment after quick and impartial investigation and trail.

STATEMENT: JusticeMakers Bangladesh gravely concerned over attacked on indigenous people at Bogura

Bangladeshi human rights organization the JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed deep concern and protest against attacked on ethnic minority indigenous people at Sherpur upazila under Bogura district in Bangladesh.

The rights body simultaneously urged to bring the culprits who were involved with the heinous crime before the book after identifying them with a quick and impartial investigation by judicial body.

JusticeMakers Bangladesh welcomes the decision of the learned Metropolitan Magistrate to acquit four Transgenders in Dhaka.

Human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed its heartiest welcome for the recent decision of learned Metropolitan Magistrate Devdas Chandra Adhikari to acquit four transgender who were falsely accused of extortion.

Simultaneously, JusticeMakers Bangladesh demanded immediate and appropriate compensation for the arbitrary arrest and detention of those sexual minority transgender people in Bangladesh whose fundamental human rights were violated.

Statement: JusticeMakers Bangladesh Protests and concerns Over the Abduction and Torture of Two Trans-women in Meherpur.

Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed deep concern and protest over the abduction and torture of two sexual minority transgender women in Meherpur.

JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded to ensure exemplary punishment by bring the accused criminal before the book after a quick and impartial investigation.

Shahanur Islam attended the 21st World Summit on Participatory Democracy at Grenoble, France

Bangladesh human rights activist and lawyer Advocate Shahanur Islam attend the 21st World Summit on Participatory Democracy held in 7th to 10th December 2022  at Grenoble, France.

More than 600 participants from over 60 countries shared and discussed democratic renewal, climate justice and participatory methodologies at the world summit of cities for democracy.

মানবাধিকার আইনজীবী শাহানূর ইসলামের অংশগ্রহণমূলক গণতন্ত্র সম্মেলনে যোগদানে ফ্রান্সের উদ্দেশ্যে ঢাকা ত্যাগ

ফ্রান্স এর গ্রোনোবল সিটি কর্পোরেশনের মেয়র এরিক পোলে’র আমন্ত্রণে অংশগ্রহণমূলক গণতন্ত্র সম্মেলনে যোগদান করতে উদ্দেশ্যে মানবাধিকার আইনজীবী ও নওগাঁ নিউজের উপদেষ্টা অ্যাডভোকেট শাহানূর ইসলাম সৈকত আজ ফ্রান্সের উদ্দেশ্যে ঢাকা ত্যাগ করেছেন।

আজ ভোর রাতে এমিরেটস এয়ারলাইনের একটি বিমানে তিনি হজরত শাহাজালাল আন্তর্জাতিক বিমান বন্দর হতে ফ্রান্সের গ্রোনোবলের উদ্দেশ্যে রওনা দেন।

Statement: JusticeMakers Bangladesh aggrieves and concerns over the killing of sexual minority gay man in Faridpur!

The Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed deep concern over the killing of Kausar Khan, a sexual minority homosexual sand trader of Charbhadrasan Upazila under Faridpur district. 

JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded that the accused criminal must be given exemplary punishment in a transparent trial after a quick and impartial investigation of the incident.

Bangladesh: Continuing Threats and Harassment of Lawyer Shahanur Islam

The Law Society of England and Wales (the “Law Society”) is the professional body representing approximately 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales. Its activities include upholding the independence of the legal profession, the rule of law and human rights throughout the world. The Law Society holds special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2014.

The Law Society is gravely concerned about the continuing threats and harassment of lawyer Shahanur Islam in connection with his legitimate activities as a lawyer. He works as the Secretary General of the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights and JusticeMakers Bangladesh. Mr Islam has defended the rights of ethnic, religious, and LGBTI minorities, as well as opposition politicians and has faced multiple death threats, intimidation, physical assault, and arrest since at least 2008.

JusticeMakers Bangladesh congrats the sexual minority transgender woman for being elected as a member of union council in Kushtia!

Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has congratulated and wished the transgender woman Payal Khatun for being elected as a female member in Kanchanpur Union Parishad (UP) of Sadar Upazila of Kushtia district of Bangladesh.

 

According to the news published by Voice of America's Bengali section online on November 4, 2022, Payal Khatun, a transgender woman elected as a member of the Union Parishad in Kushtia district of Bangladesh and she is the first elected public representative of the third gender in Kushtia district.

JusticeMakers Bangladesh protests and concerns over the attempt to expel homosexual teacher from the college in Dhaka's Dhamrai.

Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed its deep concern and anger over the attempt to expulsion of a sexual minority homosexual community teacher from the college on charges of homosexuality with students in Dhamrai, Dhaka.

At the same time, Justice Makers Bangladesh strongly demanded that the culprits involved in the incident should be bring before the book after quick and impartial investigation.

According to the news published in the online newspaper risingbd.com on November 2, 2022 AD, it is known that 30 students have written a complaint to the Upazila Nirbahi Officer against Aminul Islam, the senior lecturer of the geography department of Bhalum Ataur Rahman Khan Degree College in Dhamrai, Dhaka seeking remedy for homosexuality.

ঢাকার ধামরাইয়ে যৌন সংখ্যালঘু সমকামী শিক্ষককে কলেজ থেকে বিতারণের অপচেষ্টায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশের প্রতিবাদ ও উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ।

ঢাকার ধামরাইয়ে যৌন সংখ্যালঘু সমকামী সম্প্রদায়ের এক শিক্ষককে ছাত্রদের সাথে সমকামিতার অভিযোগে কলেজ থেকে বিতারনের অপচেষ্টার ঘটনায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশের গভীর উদ্বেগ ও ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করেছে।

একই সাথে উক্ত ঘটনা দ্রুত ও নিরপেক্ষ তদন্তপূর্বক জড়িত অপরাধীকে বিচারে দৃষ্ঠান্তমূলক শাস্তি প্রদানের জোড় দাবী জানিয়েছে জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ ।

গত ০২ নভেম্বর ২০২২ খ্রীষ্টাব্দ তারিখে অনলাইন পত্রিকা রাইজিং বিডি ডট কম এ প্রকাশিত খবর আনুযায়ী জানা যায় ঢাকার ধামরাইয়ে ভালুম আতাউর রহমান খান ডিগ্রি কলেজের ভূগোল বিভাগের জ্যেষ্ঠ প্রভাষক আমিনুল ইসলামের বিরুদ্ধে সমকামীতার প্রতিকার চেয়ে উপজেলা নির্বাহী অফিসারের কাছে ৩০ শিক্ষার্থী লিখিত অভিযোগ করেছে।

European attorneys seek protection for LGBTQ activist Bangladeshi lawyer

European lawyers are urging the prime minister of Bangladesh to protect a Bangladeshi attorney whose gay-rights activism has made him the target of death threats.

The president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) wrote to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Oct. 19, seeking protection for attorney/activist Shahanur Islam.

In the letter, the CCBE “respectfully urges Your Excellency to do everything in your power to urgently provide adequate protection to lawyer Shahanur Islam and his family, since it is believed that this continuous acts of threats and harassment are based on his legitimate activities as a human rights lawyer.”

JusticeMakers Bangladesh deeply concerned over the killing of trans-woman in Rangpur.

Bangladeshi human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh has expressed deep concern and aggrieved over the killing of the sexual minority transgender community people in Rangpur, northern part of Bangladesh.

At the same time, JusticeMakers Bangladesh has demanded that to give exemplary punishment to the criminal involved in the brutal murder of the transgender woman after quick and impartial investigation.

OIAD ALERT: New death threats against Shahanur Islam, lawyer, human rights defender

Recently, Shahanur Islam, a Bangladeshi lawyer known for his human rights work, has suffered ongoing death threats against him and his family with impunity.

On 25 August 2022 Mr Islam received a threatening message in english on his phone from an unidentified number. The message threatened to kill the lawyer and his family if he continued to fight for LGBT rights in Bangladesh. On 8 September 2022, a new threatening text message was received by the lawyer.

গাইবান্ধায় দলিত কিশোরী ধর্ষণের ঘটনায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশের উদ্বেগ ও প্রতিবাদ

গাইবান্ধার ফুলছড়ি উপজেলায় বুদ্ধি প্রতিবন্ধী দলিত (রবিদাস জনগোষ্ঠী) কিশোরী ধর্ষণের ঘটনায় মানবাধিকার প্রতিষ্ঠান জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ গভীর উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করেছে।

একই সাথে উল্লেখিত ধর্ষণের সাথে জড়িত ধর্ষনকারীদের অনতিবিলম্বে গ্রেফতার ও দৃষ্টান্তমূলক শাস্তির দাবী করেছে জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ।

CCBE urgent to PM of Bangladesh on intensifying threats against lawyer Shahanur Islam

I am writing to you on behalf of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 46 countries, and through them more than 1 million European lawyers. The CCBE places great emphasis on respect for human rights and the rule of law and is particularly concerned with the situation of human rights defenders around the world.

Law Society of England and Wales Raises Concerns Over Threats to Bangladeshi Lawyer Shahanur Islam

The Law Society of England and Wales, a professional body representing approximately 200,000 solicitors, has expressed deep concerns regarding the ongoing threats and harassment faced by Bangladeshi lawyer Shahanur Islam. On 16 November , in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, the Law Society called for immediate action to safeguard Mr. Islam and uphold the rule of law.

Shahanur Islam serves as the Secretary General of the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights and Justice Makers Bangladesh. Throughout his career, he has been an ardent defender of the rights of ethnic, religious, and LGBTI minorities, as well as opposition politicians. Regrettably, he has been a target of multiple threats, intimidation, physical assault, and arrest dating back to 2008.