Law enforcement agencies suppress opposition: BNP

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday accused the government of repressing the democratic rights of dissidents.

“The government has taken a brutal repressive policy and at the behest of it the law enforcement agencies have become unrestrained in suppressing the opposition parties,” Mirza Fakhrul said in a statement.

The statement issued protesting the arrest of Bhasani Onusari Parishad joint convener Abu Yusuf Selim.

Mirza Fakhrul said, “The illegal authoritarian government has been desperately repressing all opposition parties and dissidents including BNP to take the country to the extreme darkness of the one-party misrule after burying democracy under the ground.”

Abu Yusuf Selim was arrested following the continuation to this repression of the government, he added.

“Selim was arrested from the sit-in, which was part of the on-going movement against the government, on 29 July. He (Selim) has been severely ill in jail and is being deprived of a better treatment,” the BNP leader said.

Mirza Fakhrul said the only motive of the government is to maintain a reign of terror in the country.

“Its aim is that no one can dare protest the illegal and autocrat rule of this fascist regime,” he said.

“But, the people of the country started taking to the streets amid torture and oppression to oust this illegal government.

The people are determined to make the country free from this extreme misrule. The people will surely be conquering,” he said.