Case Study on Human Rights Defenders

 


CASE STUDIES.

 Mr. M.A Gofur victim of violence.

Human Rights Defender advocate Mr. M.A. Gofur (45) who is seating union parishad chairman of Moshimnagar union of Monirampur police station, is a victim of  violence who on 24th July 2012 while sitting in the office of Moniorampur Upozila PIO (Project Implementation Officer) office at 11a.m, suddenly 4-5 assassinators entered in the office with arms and attacked him and assaulted him and tried to kill him. Mr. M.A Gofur fell on the ground; in the face of attack the office bearers cried out and tried to resist him from the hands of hooligans, other people rushed there at the shouting of office bearers and he was rescued from their hands and he then and there was hospitalized in the Jessore general Hospital. The authorities of Hospital referred him to Dhaka Crippled Hospital and took there treatments for long days. His leg and hands are now disabled partly.

Mr. M.A Gofur after being recovered from wounds of attack contested District Bar Association Election on 24th November 2012 for 2013 and he own with overwhelming majority of votes. He as a human rights defender worked for ensuring peoples rights irrespective of political identities and caste and creeds As a social worker his popularity exceeds all in his peripheryHe is attached with BNM in performing it’s human rights activities.

In the face of attack another human rights defender Mr. Uttam Hari left the country for ever.

Mr. Uttam Hari (50), the Head master of Verchi Secondary High School and a social worker who has been fighting for justice and assertion of peoples human rights ,while appointing some teachers in his school as staffs, most of the members of school managing committee under the umbrella of a political party took illegal bribe from teacher-candidates and created illegal pressure on him and in the face of threats he sought safe shelter at Keshabpur Saha Para and stayed there for couple of  months and one day before the date  of recruitment interview of teachers he finding risk of life left the country for ever confidentially  in the month of June – 2012