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Dhaka should act on HR concerns raised at UPR: HRW

Human rights 2023-11-17, 8:16pm

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Bangladesh govt should act on concerns over grave abuses, including political arrests, disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings and crackdown on civil society raised by member states during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) says 

@hrw https://hrw.org/news/2023/11/16/bangladesh-un-rights-review-amid-violent-crackdown 

Meenakshi Ganguly @meeganguly, of HRW, Asia said this in a tweet on Friday, Nov 17. The latest UPR of Bangladesh was held in Geneva this week.