Two international human rights body called upon the government to return all disappeared persons to their families.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) made the joint statement yesterday morning.
They issued the press release as 4th of December 2015 was two years of disappearances of eight activists belonging to the opposition political party.
The press release was issued just a day after 19 families, whose members disappeared two years ago, held a press conference on Friday morning demanding return of the near and dear ones.
The relatives of the disappeared victims’ appeals were denied by the executive and judicial authorities, and they received law enforcers denials, negligence, and further intimidation.
According to information gathered by human rights defenders, from January to November 2015, 59 people were forcibly disappeared in Bangladesh.
They said the role the judicial system of the country was playing about the recurrence of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions were also been questioned.
They also advised the judicial system to check the pattern of abductions, the inaction on the part of the law enforcement agencies and the profiles of the victims of disappearances.
