The United States has emphasized ensuring appropriate representation for those who are in detention in Bangladesh, treating them in line with basic fundamental freedoms and human rights.
“We continue to stress and emphasize that even those who are in detention need to be afforded appropriate representation and need to be treated with basic fundamental freedoms and human rights,” US Department of State Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a regular briefing in Washington on Tuesday.
Patel said the US is “consistent” with every government with which it has a relationship and is clear that there needs to be respect for fundamental freedoms, religious freedom and basic human rights.
“Any kind of protests should be and need to be peaceful, and that any kind of crackdown – not even crackdown – that governments need to respect the rule of law, they need to respect basic human rights as part of that. And that’s something we’ll continue to emphasize,” Patel said.
