AHRC critical of legal system in Bangladesh

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made some critical observations about the legal system of Bangladesh.

In a statement published last night in its website, the AHRC cited instances of the prolonged detention suffered by Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of daily Amar Desh, and the case filed against journalist Shafik Rehman.

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The commission observed that the police routinely use the term “shown arrested” to prolong the detention of a person already in jail, without even producing the detainee in Court, which defies the provision in Section 351 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and basic principles of justice.

The government used the police and other non-state actors to file 74 cases against Mahmudur, it added.