The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) has praised a unanimous resolution from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) that directly accuses the interim government of Bangladesh, led by Muhammad Yunus, of serious human rights violations, unfairly detaining former lawmakers, having terrible prison conditions, and intentionally blocking international observers from watching what it calls politically motivated trials.
The strong resolution, passed by the IPU Governing Council during its 216th session in Geneva on October 23, 2025, and recently released, highlights the cases of six former Awami League MPsโSaber Hossain Chowdhury, Fazle Karim Chowdhury, Habibe Millat, Asaduzzaman Noor, Mosharraf Hossain, and Muhammad Faruk Khanโbut also indicates that over 100 former lawmakers are currently
In a statement, RRAG Director Suhas Chakma, one of the original complainants to the IPU, declared: โThis denial of visas on time to the IPU trial observers and an IPU delegation to Bangladesh shows that the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus is trying the jailed former parliamentarians in kangaroo courts and has gross human rights violations to hide.โ
Chakma added: โThe resolution of the IPU calls for effective actions by the international community, which are blindly supporting the interim government in the hope that Nobel Laureate Yunus has respect for the rule of law and democracy. Dr. Yunus has no respect for the rule of law, turned the judiciary into kangaroo courts, and the case is building up for stripping him of the Nobel Prize.โ
Key findings of the IPU resolution:
– Deep concern over โarbitrary arrest and detention, inhumane conditions of detention, and lack of due processโ against the six former parliamentarians.
– Alarm that some charges carry the death penalty and appear politically motivated.
– Strong condemnation of the governmentโs repeated refusal to grant timely visas to an independent IPU trial observer (blocked on two separate occasions) and total silence on requests for an official IPU human rights delegation to visit Bangladesh and meet detainees and prison authorities.
– Reminder that over 100 former Awami League parliamentarians remain detained, with former Industry Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun having died in custody on September 29, 2025.
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The IPU reiterated its urgent wish to send both a trial observer and a full delegation โas soon as possibleโ and demanded full cooperation from Dhaka.
RRAG stressed that the IPUโs unanimous standโrepresenting parliaments from 180 countriesโmarks the strongest international parliamentary rebuke yet to the Yunus administration and significantly damages its claims of upholding the rule of law and democratic transition.
As of going to press, the Chief Adviserโs Office has not responded to the IPU resolution or to repeated requests from this newspaper for comment on the visa denials and allegations of kangaroo courts.
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