Human rights index now below zero: Khaleda

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said that human rights index in Bangladesh had dropped below zero.
In a message issued on the occasion of the Human Rights Day,  Khaleda said that Bangladesh had been turned into a ‘slaughtering ground’ before and after January 5, 2015 ‘unilateral’ election.
She alleged that the present ‘illegal’ government snatched away all democratic rights of the people through limitless bloodshed and unbridled repression.
Democratic rights of people is complement to human rights, read the message signed by BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Khaleda said that not only opposition leaders and activists but none including   journalists, rights activists, students, teachers, workers, women and children had security in the country.
Most of them are being subjected to victims of enforced disappearance, secret killing and extrajudicial killing, she said. 
She alleged that apart from opposition leaders and activists, false cases were being filed against neutral political analysts and television talk-show discussants and even someone were being imprisoned for criticising the government.
Khaleda said that people now had neither civic freedom nor fundamental rights.
All have to unite for establishing real democracy to get rid of the misrule, she said, adding that it should be the commitment on the human rights day that present misrule must end.
BNP would form human chains across the country today to mark the day.
Rizvi announced that human chain would be formed in district headquarters and metropolitan cities, including Dhaka.

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