British MPs worried over human rights situation in BD

 
Five British Members of Parliament (MPs) have voiced grim worries about the prevailing human rights situation in Bangladesh. At the same time these British lawmakers have called upon the United Nations and important international platforms to take strong steps to restrain human rights violations from getting further deteriorated in Bangladesh.

These British MPs wrote about their concern over human rights being flouted in Bangladesh through a letter which was published in UK-based news outlet The Times.

The letter includes names of Bob Blackman, Jash Athwall, Neil Koel, Gurnider Singh and Luke Ekhirst. Five British lawmakers, one legal expert and one political analyst described their trepidation over Bangladesh's human rights plight in The Times. According to the letter 

published in Times, an interim government was constituted in Bangladesh over one year ago while the above British parliamentarians are highly worried about the decline in human rights across Bangladesh since then.

The British MPs referred to several international reports in which failure of Bangladesh's judicial system, denial to detainees' bail rights, politically instigated arrests, banning political parties ahead of polls, unrestrained violence and attacks on minorities were narrated.

The British MPs urged the British government, Britain's Foreign Office, the United Nations and international stakeholders to emphatically request the Bangladesh interim government to improve human rights situation with immediate effect on equal terms with global standards. The British parliamentarians also placed importance on establishing good governance, rule of law and accountability all over Bangladesh.  

Another two individuals named in the above letter are jurist Steven Powells and Member of House of Lords Baroness Smith of Lanfayes.