BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded that two sexual minority
lesbian girls in Tangail city, who were handed over to the local police station
by the provocation of local homophobic people from the Kazi office, should
quickly identify and arrest the accused criminals and conduct an impartial and
transparent investigation and trial and provide exemplary punishment to those
responsible.
According to the news published in Daily Kalbela online version on 27th
September that two lesbian girls sent to police custody after coming to get
married at Kazi office in Tangail. When one lesbian girls came to Battala Kazi
office to marry another lesbian girl on Tuesday afternoon on 27th September,
the Kazi informed the police of Sadar police station.
Tangail Sadar police station officer-in-charge (OC) A. Salam confirmed the
matter. He said that two girls from a village in Nagarpur upazila of the
district came to Tangail Kazi office to get married. Hearing this incident,
local people started gathering at Kazi's office, then Kazi Shahidul Islam
informed the police. Then the police went and brought them both to the police
station.
BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh Secretary General and LGBT rights activist
Advocate Shahanur Islam has expressed condemn and extremely concern over the
fact that Kazi's office revealed that the sexual minority lesbian girls wanted
to marry and then handed them over to the local police station.
At the same time, Advocate Shahanur Islam called for those people to be quickly
identified and handed over to justice and exemplary punishment those local
homophobic people who were involved to give pressure to send the two teenagers
to take the custody of the local police station.
Advocate Shahnur Islam believes that the aforementioned incident are not an
isolated incident in Bangladesh, but rather a part of the widespread ongoing
discrimination, physical assault, threats, death threats, killings, and other
human rights violations against the persons of LGBT community, including
lesbians, across Bangladesh.
Advocate Shahanur Islam also thinks that although all homosexuals are facing
various types of human rights violations including discrimination and violence
from their homes to society and from society to the state, but the women of the
lesbian community are victims of violence and human rights violations to a
greater extent. But the sad thing is that the cases of human rights violations
including discrimination and violence are rarely exposed to the public due to
social unacceptability and intolerance, rather most of the cases remain
invisible to the public.
With Best Regards
Advocate Shahanur Islam
Secretary General
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Cell: 01720308080
email: bihr.bd@gmail.com, justicemakersbd@gmail.com
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