BANGLADESH. EP CALLS FOR END TO EXTRA-JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS

the EP adopted a resolution calling on the Bangladeshi government to bring an end the “Rapid Response Battalion” paramilitary operations against organised crime, which had been carrying out extra-judicial executions (more than “40 death in ambushes” a month). It also underlined that the ODIKAR organisation, a reputable human rights organisation, had affirmed that in 2004 ninety people died in detention after suffering from torture.