Bangladesh: Child Rights Activists arrested
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Sep 12, 2015
- Event Description
On September 12, 2015 police entered a house and arrested four activists of a voluntary organisation "Adommo Bangladesh Foundation' that provided shelter to homeless and street children. Police claimed that Arifur Rahman (24), Hasibul Hasan (19), Zakia Sultana (19) and Firoze Alam (21) were arrested under allegations of trafficking 10 children; and were taken into remand. Police also brought children to the police station from a house located at Banashree in the Rampura area of Dhaka. Police filed a case with Rampura Police Station against the four child rights activists. The arrestees claimed that they were working for the rehabilitation of street children with the approval of the government. After taking the children to the police station, they said they were homeless and living at Sadarghat Launch Terminal and Kamalapur Rail Station. They have learned how to write and read their names apart from getting better food and shelter.35 Among the 10 children, a child named Mobarak was handed over to the custody of his family by police and the other children were sent to the correction centre for children and adolescents in Tongi with the permission of the Court. On January 29, 2014 "Adommo Bangladesh Foundation' was registered as a voluntarily organisation. Most of the activists engaged with this organisation are college and university students. "Adommo Bangladesh Foundation' was involved in various welfare activities for the children, including giving them primary education, distribution of warm clothes during winter and entertainment. One of the Board Members of the Organisation and a student of Home Economics College, Ranta Biswas, informed that they had rented a flat at Banashree in December 2014 to make a shelter home for homeless children. 10 children had been staying in that rented flat.
- Impact of Event
- 4
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Rights Concerned
- Right to housing
- Right to property
- HRD
- Student
- Youth
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 23.810332
Longitude: 90.4125181
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On September 12, 2015 police entered a house and arrested four activists of a voluntary organisation __�Adommo Bangladesh Foundation' that provided shelter to homeless and street children: Arifur Rahman (24), Hasibul Hasan (19), Zakia Sultana (19) and Firoze Alam (21) were arrested under allegations of trafficking 10 children; and were taken into remand.