Human rights organizations BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh are concerned over the handover of two lesbian girls to the police station in Tangail.

Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed deep concern over the recent handover of two homosexual lesbian girls from the Kazi office to the policemen in Tangail city.

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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