Human Rights Issues!

     As Article #5 in The Universal Declaration Of Rights.."No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Recently on December 22,2010, Bangladeshi security forces tortured Salauddin Quader Chowdhury,63 yrs, during interrogations. Security forces applied electrodes to his genitals,beat him,slitting his stomach with razors and twisting his toenails with pliers. Salauddin was arrested in connection with a case where a car was set alight in Dhaka;killing a passenger.After being tortured, he was taken to the hospital for an asthma consition and was told that there was gong to be further torture. Salauddin has suffered three heart attacks. I really think this is an in-human way of giving a punishment to somebody. As the Abbas Faiz  said:"The government of Bangladesh is obligated under international human rights law, to protect all persons under its jurisdiction from torture and other ill-treatment at all times".Now, where were they when this happened???
     Article #19 says:"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."Bangladesh's government limited and prohibited freedom of assembly  mainly for political opponents and in some occasions limited freedom of movement.There was also a violation to Article #18 which says that " Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance". There was violence to members of the Ahmadiya religious minority.
     But as to women rights...dozens of people were injured, one dead and more than 100 arrested on April 4 2011, during a confrontation between police officers and demonstrator that appeal of Islamic parties opposed to promote equality of women. I apply Article #19(mentioned earlier) and Article #6.." Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law" Why? Why do they treat US women differently. We can do anything men can do so why not consider women equal to men. Doesn't article #6 says that everybody should be treated equally by the law?
     And to the last current human rights violation or issue currently happening in Bangladesh is that State agents allow army officers' relatives to rob off the house of a human right DEFENDER.According to Article #12,"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."This mean that they are obvioulsy invading somebody's privacy violating it when it is a right to have it. I don't see the logical part on invading a human rights defender's privacy when the person is doing the right thing.




http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAU-016-2011
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/sa/692.htm
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE014272010&lang=e