Kabir Humayun: Emin-ent human rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday said that human rights defenders of Bangladesh are in the most precarious condition in the country now.
“Whenever the activists speak up about human rights, the state automatically assumes that they are talking against the state,” she alleged.
While speaking at Indigenous People’s Human Rights Defenders Conference at CIRDAP in Dhaka, Kamal also said, “False cases are filed and an intimidating environment has been created.”
“By such behaviors, the state is violating the constitution,” the rights activist added.
Mizanur Rahman, former chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Sanjib Drong, general secretary of Adivasi Forum, and Penny Morton Deputy High Commissioner of Australian High Commission, also spoke in the programme, among others.
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