Desk report
Shahanur Islam, a prominent human rights lawyer and gay rights campaigner in Bangladesh received repeated death threats SMS over his mobile phone.
Shahanur told to Soja Kotha that recently on 25th August and 6th September 2022, he received separate two death threats messages along with his wife and kid over his mobile phone.
BIHR and
JusticeMakers of Bangladesh strongly demanded that the accused persons involved
in endangering the personal safety and security of the sexual minority
lesbian teenagers in Sadar Upazila of Lakshipur district by exposing
their love and marriage incidents should be quickly identified, arrested, and
impartially investigated, and the perpetrators should be given exemplary
punishment at the end of a speedy and transparent trial process. .
According to the news published on 16 September 2022 in the online newspaper Rising BD.com, it is known that there has been a commotion over the ' homosexual love ' of two girls in Lakshmipur. After getting married in 2021 through a notary public, information was leaked after one and a half years. Discussion and criticism is going on in the area.
বিআইএইচআর এবং জাস্টিসমেকার্স বাংলাদেশ লক্ষিপুর জেলার সদর
উপজেলায় যৌন সংখ্যালঘু সমকামী লেসবিয়ান কিশোরীর প্রেম ও
বিয়ের ঘটনা প্রকাশের মাধ্যমে তাদের ব্যক্তিগত নিরাপত্তা হুমকির মুখে ফেলার সাথে
জড়িত অভিযুক্ত ব্যক্তিদের দ্রুত চিহ্নিতপূর্বক গ্রেফতার করে নিরপেক্ষ তদন্তের মাধ্যমে দ্রুত ও স্বচ্ছ বিচার প্রক্রিয়া অন্তে দায়ীদের দৃষ্ঠান্তমূলক শাস্তি প্রদানের জোড়
দাবী জানিয়েছে।
Recently on 25th August and 6th September 2022, he received separate two death threats messages along with his wife and kid over his mobile phone.
On 25th October 2022 around at 10:17 pm BST, Mr. Islam received threats message in English language over his phone from an unidentified number. The message states that if you don’t stop fighting aims to establishment of homo sexual rights in BD, immediately you will be killed along with your family members brutally.
BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh believe that because of being a teacher of homosexual nature, refrain him from taking classes is a clear violation of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, due to students protest patronized by the homophobic people.
