Other members of Maayer Daak
Cases- Case status
- Unknown
- Location of case in SG report
- 2023-014-002
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2023
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 23.684994
Longitude: 90.356331
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Bangladesh
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- OHCHR: OHCHR - General
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of prior UN action
- August 2022
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Gender unclear
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
works for a platform of families of disappeared persons
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
Meeting with the HCHR
- Engagement with UN body
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of engagement
- August 2022
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- August 2022
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Bangladesh
- Reprisal information
- According to information received by OHCHR, Ms. Sanjida Islam Tulee and other members of Maayer Daak, a platform of families of disappeared persons, received threatening calls after the visit of the High Commissioner, visits by police officers and were placed under increased surveillance. Reportedly, Ms. Islam faced a smear campaign after she met with the High Commissioner and, similar to many other members of Maayer Daak, received visits by security agencies and was asked to sign a statement, which said that there had been no disappearance in her family.12
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Other
- Surveillance
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Yes
- Was the case raised by a State at the UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- Yes
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 1
- In which SG report was this case followed up on? 0
- 2024
- Follow up information provided in SG report 0
- Ms. Sanjida Islam Tulee and other members of Maayer Daak association, a platform of families of disappeared persons, were included in the 2023 report of the Secretary General22 on alleged threats, police visits, increased surveillance, and a smear campaign in relation to the visit to Bangladesh by the then United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. According to information received by OHCHR, during the reporting period Ms. Sanjida Islam and other members of Maayer Daak, continued to receive threatening calls, and visits by police officers, and remained under increased surveillance. During the reporting period they were reportedly visited several times by security agencies, who instructed them to stop speaking out, including with United Nations officials, while media and other organizations continued to undertake smear campaigns against them for their work on the human rights of the disappeared and their families, including with the United Nations.
- On 24 June 2023, in the context of an official visit to the country of the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations to attend an official meeting co-hosted by Bangladesh, Canada, and Uruguay, Ms. Sanjida Islam Tulee and a group of some 20 women waited outside of the meeting venue to hand him a document containing information about the alleged disappearance of their relatives. Police did not allow Ms. Islam Tulee and the group of women to deliver the document. The same day, Ms. Islam Tulee was reportedly visited by the police in her home and instructed not to approach the United Nations.
- The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances reiterated in its annual report its previous recommendation to the Government of Bangladesh that it must ensure that the relatives of disappeared persons, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations working on their behalf are protected from any threat, intimidation, or reprisals. (A/HRC/54/22 para. 62)
- Followup Trends 0
- Stayed same
- Did the government respond? 0
- No
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