Bangladesh: workers staging a protest met with police violence

Event
Country
  • Bangladesh
Initial Date
Jun 6, 2022
Event Description

On 6 June 2022, workers of several garment factories, including Zuki, Loadstar, Saras, Vision, Polka and MBM in Mirpur, Dhaka, blocked roads in protest, demanding a salary increase. At that time, police baton charged and threw tear gas shells at the workers, injuring some. The workers said that although the factory authorities had promised to increase their salaries this year, it had not been done. Workers have been fired on various pretexts for demanding a pay rise.

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
Violation
  • Violence (physical)
Rights Concerned
  • Freedom of association
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to healthy and safe environment
  • Right to Protest
HRD
  • Labour rights defender
Perpetrator-State
  • Police
Source

Information shared to FORUM-ASIA by Odhkar

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 23.747367126720746

Longitude: 90.4083637208721

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 6 June 2022, a group of labour rights defenders were met with police violence including baton charge and teargas canisters for staging a protest calling for salary increase in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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