Human Rights Watch has said that the Bangladeshi authorities should investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture, including by police members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the police.
“Bangladesh’s spy branch has previously been implicated by local human rights groups in allegations of serious human rights abuses, including enforced disappearances and torture,” Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said on Friday.
The New York-based rights watchdog said that allegations of torture are rarely investigated or prosecuted in Bangladesh. Following a review in July 2019, the United Nations Committee against Torture described the Bangladesh Police as a “state within a state”, adding that “in general, one got the impression that the police, along Only other law enforcement agencies, were able to operate with impunity and zero accountability.”
