{"id":5364,"date":"2020-05-25T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2020-05-25T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:15:04","slug":"bangladesh-government-must-stop-enforced-disappearances-and-provide-special-care-to-families-of-the-disappeared-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/05\/25\/bangladesh-government-must-stop-enforced-disappearances-and-provide-special-care-to-families-of-the-disappeared-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"BANGLADESH: Government must stop enforced disappearances and provide special care to families of the disappeared during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Bangladesh, enforced disappearances continue to take place even during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting opposition political activists and individuals who are critical of the government\u2019s response to the pandemic. According to information documented by Odhikar, 10 people disappeared from January to April 2020. Disappeared persons are often victims of torture and extrajudicial killings and many have been missing for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/odhikar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Joint-Statement-on-IWD-Bangladesh-AFAD-AHRC-FIDH-Odhikar-AG-JR-25May.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Joint Statement on IWD<\/span><\/a> (full text in English, PDF)<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/odhikar.org\/bangladesh-government-must-stop-enforced-disappearances-and-provide-special-care-to-families-of-the-disappeared-during-covid-19\/\">News \u2013 Odhikar<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangladesh, enforced disappearances continue to take place even during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting opposition political activists and individuals who are critical of the government\u2019s response to the pandemic. According to information documented by Odhikar, 10 people disappeared from January to April 2020. Disappeared persons are often victims of torture and extrajudicial killings and many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1492],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5365,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}