Human Rights In Bangladesh
In 2005, Bangladesh experienced an unprecedented period of continuous political instability. OnAugust 17, 2005, four hundred bombs exploded in all but one of the nation's sixty-four districts. As a result of this instability and its national security repercussions, Bangladesh's already questionable human rights has deteriorated.
Bangladeshi security forces have been persistently criticised by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch due to grave abuses of human rights. These include extrajudicial summary executions, excessive use of force and the use of custodial torture. Reporters and defenders of human rights are harassed and intimidated by the authorities. Since 2003, legislative barriers to prosecution and transparency have afforded security services immunity from accountability to the general public. Hindu and Ahmadi Muslim minorities human rights are in a compromised state, and corruption is still a major problem, such that Transparency International has listed Bangladesh as the most corrupt country in the world for five co consecutive years.
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