A US attorney is seeking travel ban on Bangladesh government higher-ups including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, says the PR Newswire.
The attorney, Martin F McMahon, has sent out a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry requesting to impose the travel ban. Home minister MK Alamgir’s name is also in the “ban list.”
It was revealed in a seminar in New York Hilton Midtown VIP room on October 12 organised by the Human Rights and Development for Bangladesh (HRDB).
Others in the list are: Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Benazir Ahmed, Mehdi Hasan of Dhaka Police Motijhil district and Pradip Das of Chittagong Patchlaish Police Station.
Mr McMahon claims that the individuals listed have all violated human rights. He asked that these “egregious violators be barred the privilege of entering the United States, in keeping with the United Nations Convention against Torture and the Immigration and Nationalization Act.”
According to Mr McMahon cases of human rights being violated by Hasina’s government include that of newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman, reported by Amnesty International; “the police abduction” of Shukhoranjan Bali, a defence witness of “the controversial and discredited” International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), reported by Human Rights Watch; and the abduction and execution of Aminul Islam, a labour rights organizer, reported by Amnesty International.
Attorney McMahon also cited the “Mass murder” cases, including "the massacre" of at least dozens of protesters by the police on February 28. According to him the government has also violated human rights with Operation Shapla, which was launched in the early hours of May 6 at the capital’s Motijhil area.
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Earlier on June 27, Martin F McMahon lodged a complaint against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 other government high-ups in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands for allegedly violating human rights.
The case implicated influential officials of the incumbent Bangladesh government for their alleged role in violating human rights and petitioned the ICC to investigate and prosecute those responsible.
