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Save Bangladesh!

Posted by Mufti Admin on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, In : Action Alert 

Save Bangladesh!

Bangladesh has been steadily growing and moving forward.

That is until now.

The ugly head of politics is now taking this third largest Muslim country in the world backward.

In the last two weeks about 200 people mostly unarmed peaceful demonstrators have been killed in broad daylight by the police and the notorious Rapid Action Battalion. They were protesting the death sentence to the most popular Quran scholar of Bangladesh. Maulana Dilwar Sayeedi is scheduled to be han...

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Ask Bangladesh to Respect its Women

Posted by Mufti Admin on Wednesday, January 9, 2013, In : Action Alert 

In India, rape is devastating women. In Bangladesh, it is the government.

This is through its violations of women through arbitrary arrests, beatings, and detentions. Their crime: they are the relatives of Bangladesh’s Islamic opposition party.

How can the Prime Minister of Bangladesh tolerate its police abusing women, some pregnant and some elderly, simply because of their beliefs and those of their loved ones? 

The government’s security forces are completely out of c...


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Save Bangladesh and Justice

Posted by Mufti Admin on Thursday, December 13, 2012, In : Action Alert 

Bangladesh, a progressive country, is at risk at the hands of a ruthless regime, which is killing the opposition, labor and media. We must act now to save Bangladesh from sliding backward. At the eve of the Bangladesh Independence Day, your dua and few minutes can help this third most populated Muslim country.

Bangladesh is being divided today by what we witnessed 40 years ago in its war of independence. Those responsible for crimes must be punished through due process of law,...


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Ask your congressperson if s/he is attending the hearing on Bangladesh Human Rights

Posted by Mufti Admin on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, In : Action Alert 

BD Alert July 17 2012

If you care for the third largest Muslim country in the world, Bangladesh and want to help Muslims there, you can do so by sparing 10 minutes today! Tomorrow might be too late.

 

Finally the bi-partisan Congressional Human Rights Commission will be holding a hearing tomorrow on the worsening human rights in Bangladesh. They are talking about all appropriate issues except the human rights of the Islamic opposition leaders who are subject to unfair trials...


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Act Now to Save Human Rights Workers from Torture

Posted by Mufti Admin on Monday, July 9, 2012, In : Action Alert 

This is an urgent call for intervention for the protection of Human Rights defenders in Bangladesh.

Human Rights Watch issued a report about torture in Bangladesh reporting 47 people killed in the custody of Bangaldesh government. Now Bangladesh government is retaliating by arresting Human Rights activists in Bangladesh.

The Asian Human Rights Commission has issued an alert which says that these people will be charged with treason, sedition and other criminal charges.

Reporting on hum...


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Ask India to Stop Killing and Torturing Bangladeshis

Posted by Mufti Admin on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, In : Action Alert 

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights body, has urged the government of India to stop human rights violations by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border and prosecute those responsible. Human Rights Watch has also asked Bangladesh government to take a stronger stand with the Indian government to stop the killing and torture of Bangladeshis.

HRW recalled that in December 2010 it released the report “Trigger Happy”, which document...


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Act Today to Keep Media Free in Bangladesh

Posted by Mufti Admin on Thursday, May 31, 2012, In : Action Alert 

Nine journalists were wounded when a gang of men attacked them with machetes. These journalists were working at bdnews24.com when they were attacked last Monday in broad day light in the capital city of Dhaka.

 

Hundreds of journalists in Bangladesh are protesting this attack.


The Asian Human Rights Commission issued a statement Tuesday, accusing the government of not being able to "protect anyone."

The rights group said it was the latest in a series of attacks on journali...


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Ask Secretary Clinton to speak on Human Rights in Bangladesh

Posted by Mufti Admin on Friday, April 27, 2012, In : Action Alert 

Ask the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cancel her trip to Bangladesh unless Bangladesh government guarantees to abide by human rights of its citizens and the democratic rights of its opposition by ending kidnappings and unfair trials of opposition leaders.

 

The US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Bangladesh on May 5. She will be meeting the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opposition leader Khaleda Zia, and the Foreign Minister.

 

Call Hilla...


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Protest Tortured Death of Bangladesh Textile Labor Leader

Posted by Mufti Admin on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, In : Action Alert 
May God help Bangladesh!

But can we also help God in helping Bangladesh?

Please act today against the tortured death of the leading textile labor organizer by Bangladeshi police. Aminul Islam’s tortured body was found last Thursday next to Ghatail Police Station in Bangladesh. The 41-year-old was a unit president of Bangladesh Garment & Industrial Workers Federation.

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Act today to protect media freedom in Bangladesh

Posted by Mufti Admin on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, In : Action Alert 
Please act today to protect media freedom in Bangladesh.

A couple of journalists have lost their lives and several TV channels have been suspended without any judicial process.

This is the time to speak up to protect free media in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is movin...

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Let not politics kill Bangladesh!

Posted by Mufti Admin on Sunday, March 11, 2012, In : Action Alert 

Bangladesh was just rated to be the best country in South Asia in terms of gender equality, even better than India. It is worth noting that both the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the main opposition leader are women.

However, today Dhaka is virtually severed from other parts of the country and hundreds of opposition leaders are detained in anticipation of a massive strike tomorrow.

Will Bangladesh move forward or backward?

Bangladesh, the ninth most populous c...


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