Bangladeshi Human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed deep concern over the recent case of physically assault and extortion after wrongfully confinement of a homosexual gay minority youth boy in Mirpur area of Dhaka.
At the same time, BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh strongly demanded that all the criminals directly or indirectly involved in the incident should be quickly identified and arrested and given exemplary punishment with due process.
According to the news broadcasted on Bangladeshi news channel DBC News yesterday on August 8, 2022 (Saturday), it is known that a boy named Morshed was introduced through Facebook by a homosexual gay teenager who had just appeared for the SSC examination in Keraniganj, Dhaka. At one point, the accused Morshed lured the victim, a homosexual/gay teenager, to meet him in Dhaka's Mirpur.
When the victim homosexual gay youth appeared in Mirpur by stepping into the trap arranged by the accused criminal Morshed, the accused criminal Morshed took him to a house and confined him in a house and physically assaulted and injured him with associated 4/5 other accused criminals.
At one point, the accused criminals demanded a ransom of BDT 50,000 from the victim's parents on the mobile phone, otherwise they threatened to kill the victim homosexual/gay youth. To save their son, the family of the victimized homosexual/gay teenager freed him by paying a ransom of Rs 50,000 through the Bkash and Nagad to the accused criminals.
Later, the family of the victim homosexual/gay youth filed a case against the accused criminals and the detective branch of police arrested the three accused criminals. The main accused Morshed is still absconded.
Advocate Shahanur Islam, Secretary General of BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh as well as a noted lawyer and gay rights activist in Bangladesh believes that the physically assault of the sexually oriented minority homosexuals /gay teenagers after confinement as well as extortion of ransom is not an isolated incident in Bangladesh.
Rather, all over the country, the sexually oriented minority homosexuals are constantly subjected to violation of basic human rights such as torture, abduction, murder, humiliation, neglect, discrimination, deprivation, forced marriage in every day.
Advocate Shahanur Islam thinks that due to family and social unacceptability and intolerance, state persecution and discriminatory behavior as well as Section 377 of the Bangladesh Penal Code still exists which criminalized the homosexuality in the state law most of the human rights violations against LGBT people remain hidden.
Advocate Shahanur Islam urges to the government of Bangladesh to repeal the section 377 of the Bangladesh Penal Code after providing constitutional recognition to the sexual minorities, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders as well as to enact laws for their protection and to ensure the necessary safety and security of the said victimized homosexuals/gay teenager immediately.
With Best Regards
Advocate Shahanur Islam
Secretary General
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Cell: 01720308080
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