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Friday | January 30, 2026 | Dhaka

Independent body urged to probe enforced disappearances

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Family members of the victims of enforced disappearances under the banner of 'Mayer Dak’ form a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday, marking the International Week of the Disappeared. NN photo

News Desk :
Families of victims of enforced disappearances and human rights activists have urged the government to form an independent and impartial investigation of enforced disappearances of their loved ones.

Mayer Dak, a network of families of victims of enforced disappearances organised a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Saturday marking International Week of the Disappeared.

Human rights activists at the rally said that the number of extrajudicial killings have reduced due to human rights-related

sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and seven serving and former top officials of the agency by the US treasury department
They expressed optimism that enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings occurred before 2014 and 2018 national elections. Now it will be reduced due to the new US Visa policy in perspective of the upcoming national elections.

Renowned human right activist and executive director of Ain O Salish Kendro Md Nur Khan said, ” Circumstance will be changed due to US Visa policy”.
He informed the human chain participants that among 600 victims of enforced disappearances, only 300 returned.