2024-02-09 18:54:42
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Senior Joint Secretary General of BNP, said that the dictatorial dummy government is still continuing the horrors of disappearances, murders, disappearance cases, arrests, harassment and vandalism in order to make the bogus dummy elections on January 7 without any opposition party smooth and free of any hurdles. Indiscriminate arrests continue across the country for fear of losing power. The country’s prisons are now full of BNP activists.
Nayapaltan said these things in a press conference at the central office of BNP on Friday (February 9).
Rizvi said that on December 17, Awami League presidium member and former agriculture minister. Abdur Razzak said, “20,000 BNP leaders and activists have been arrested and kept in jail to remove obstacles in the election. We have done this thoughtfully. If they were not jailed, the country would have been paralyzed.’
Rizvi also claimed that the prison cells have been turned into suffocating concentration camps. He said the overzealous officials had become the embodiment of terror like the Gestapo. Inside each prison, all the privileges of the prison rules are taken away, and the prisoners are subjected to terrible oppression. Difficulty eating. No treatment is being given.
Rizveer also alleged that by appointing the former identified terrorist cadres of the Chhatra League as prison officials, Sheikh Hasina encouraged BNP leaders and workers to persecute them in prisons as well.
He said, they (government) are violating human rights every moment.
Referring to the death of 13 leaders of BNP in the last three months, Rizvi said that every death was a planned murder. Manowarul Islam, co-organizing secretary of Lakshmitari Mohipur Union BNP of Gangachara Upazila of Rangpur, who was imprisoned in Rangpur Jail yesterday Thursday, was tortured and killed without treatment.
He also said that Manowarul’s father Fazle Rahman and his younger brother Haroon’s relatives said that on January 13, the healthy Manowarul was picked up by the police from his house during the day and taken to the police station. After that, without giving a challan to the court, he was detained in the police station until the next night and subjected to inhuman torture in a barbaric manner. He had deep injury marks all over his body, legs, back and head. Police tortured and killed Manowarul without treatment. We demand an international investigation into every case of death in prison custody, including that of Manoyarul.
Rizvi also claimed that in the last 24 hours, law and order forces have arrested more than 11 leaders and activists of BNP and affiliated organizations across the country.