BNP leaders face extreme human rights violation in jails: Rizvi
Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party BNP on Saturday said that the Awami League and the famine are synonym.
“The Awami League and famine are similar words. One is the synonym of the other.
The reserves of the foreign currency of the country are now on dying.
Now the illegal Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is saying that the BNP will create famine in the country by March next year.
Its a ridiculous. Staying power in 15 years without voting they are now blaming BNP as advance for the upcoming famine,”
BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a virtual press briefing on Saturday.
Rizvi, however, alleged that their party’s leaders and activists are being repressed and deprived of all facilities as prisoners, extremely violating their human rights.
“The current IG Prison has verbally directed all jail authorities to deprive all the prisoners belonging to BNP of all general facilities to appease Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Rizvi said.
“BNP leaders and workers in jails are in distress now due to maltreatment,” the BNP leader alleged.
Rizvi claimed that jailed BNP leaders and activists are not being allowed to go out of cells inside the prisons.
“Even, the relatives have been barred from visiting the inmates and giving clothes for them and talking to them over the phone,” he said.
The BNP leader said the prisons are no longer places of real social criminals as those are now filled with BNP leaders and workers since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power.
He said Sheikh Hasina wants BNP leaders and workers to be harassed, victimized and tortured in jails as they are persecuted outside before their arrest.
“A terrible persecution continues inside the prisons. This persecution is unprecedented.
This oppression cannot be expressed in words. Overenthusiastic officers declared a sort of war against our party prisoners,” Rizvi said.
He strongly condemned and protested against this kind of torture on prisoners and strongly urged the authorities concerned to ensure the justified rights of the prisoners.
Rizvi also slammed the government for driving away the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance from Shahbagh and obstructing them from holding a rally in front of the National Museum on the eve of the International Human Rights Day.
The BNP leader claimed that the police have arrested more than 175 BNP leaders and activists in the last 24 hours of 5pm on Saturday.
He also said their party’s 20,665 leaders and activists have been arrested since the last week of October this year.
He alleged that the ruling AL wants to cling in power through persecuting the oppositions.
