BANGLADESH: Goshairhat Police cell where Mokles found dead

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the Gosairhat Police of Shariatpur district, around 120 kilometers far from Dhaka, have brutally tortured a man to death. The relatives and witnesses allege that the body of the torture victim, Mr. Mokles Matbor, bore several marks from the injuries sustained. The police had covered up the custodial death as a “suicide” with the help of the administrative officers and medical doctors of the district. Local human rights defenders have found that it was hardly possible to commit suicide by hanging from a ventilator, which is almost at the equal height of a person, inside the police cell. There has been no credible investigation into the allegation of torture and subsequent death in custody.

Case details are available at: http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-167-2010