Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that around three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested en masse by the Bangladesh law-enforcement in Dhaka on the eve of and during the 72-hour long blockade programme called by an alliance of opposition parties. The AHRC has been informed that many of the arrested persons are innocent bystanders who are having to suffer loss as a result of their arbitrary arrest, detention, and harassment under various pending and fabricated charges, including snatching, damaging public property, bombing, attacking police, and stealing. These victims were randomly beaten and verbally abused by the police. The relatives of the detainees, too, became victims of bribery and exploitation by police and lawyers; they have been socially stigmatized and are frightened of the potential furtherance of harassment by the police. The government authorities have yet to take action against the alleged perpetrators. The victims have no place from which to obtain redress for their sufferings caused by these arbitrary arrests, fabricated charges and unjust detentions. The AHRC has been notified of six individuals in particular who have suffered from such violations of their human rights, and we call for your urgent intervention on their behalf.
CASE DETAILS:
On 4 January 2007, the eve of the massive political programmes called by the Awami League-led Grand Alliance, the Bangladesh Police began hunting people under various arbitrary sections of law. They particularly abused section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which gives police officers the authority to arrest any person on suspicion without an arrest warrant from a judicial authority. The police arrested people indiscriminately all around the country under section 54 then implicated some of these in previous pending cases or new fabricated charges. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) alone arrested around three thousand people in one week. The arrested persons not only include political activists belonging to the Grand Alliance but also innocent pedestrians, schoolboys, day labourers, street hawkers and small businessmen. The Magistrate Courts sent these victims of arbitrary arrest into detention without any consideration. The victims and their families have been facing considerable sufferings and financial losses since the mass arrests. It is alleged that the Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Mr. A B M Bazlur Rahman, fixed a certain target number of arrests for each of the police stations under his jurisdiction.
Case 1:
Md. Saiful Islam alias Madari (25), a supply assistant of a biscuit-candy distributing company, lives in a slum in the Dogair Bazar area under the Demra police station in Dhaka. On 5 January 2007, at approximately 8:00 PM, Saiful was returning home from work when a BNP-led election campaign procession passed through. A clash took place in the adjacent area between two political groups, and the Demra police began arresting people indiscriminately, picking up Saiful from the street. Around 10:00 PM, Saiful’s family learned of his arrest and rushed to the Demra police station that same night. They requested the police officers to release Saiful arguing his innocence and detailing his profession. A Sub Inspector (unidentified by the relatives) allegedly demanded BDT 2,000 (USD 28.77) on condition of releasing Saiful from police custody. Saiful’s elder sister, Mrs. Hasina Begum, who is a handicraft maker in a cottage factory, gave the Sub Inspector the BDT 500 (USD 7.19) she had brought with her. The police officer then told Mrs. Hasina that five hundred Taka is not enough to release her brother and that he will send Saiful to the Court on the following morning. He suggested Mrs. Hasina to release her brother on bail. Mrs. Hasina then contacted a lawyer who asked BDT 10,000 (USD 143.83) for arranging bail for Saiful. On repeated request by Mrs. Hasina, the lawyer agreed to do the job for BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32).
On January 6, the Demra police produced Saiful before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court including his name in a fabricated charge along with the names of many other such victims of arbitrary arrest. The CMM Court ordered Saiful be sent to the Dhaka Central Jail.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Hasina borrowed money to pay BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32) to the lawyer. Each day from January 7 to 9, the lawyer told Hasina that he was trying to arrange bail for Saiful as she asked about the progress. On January 10, the lawyer told Mrs. Hasina that Saiful’s bail will be granted that same day and instructed her to go to the Dhaka Central Jail’s gate by 9:00 AM on January 11 to receive her brother. Mrs. Hasina waited from 9 in the morning until 5:15 in the afternoon on January 11, but her brother did not emerge from the jail gates. Saiful was not released from detention at the time of our investigation.
Mrs. Hasina is worried about the future of her brother Saiful, whose employer fired him on the morning following his arbitrary arrest. Following this, Saiful’s 22-year-old wife Marryam and 1.5-year-old daughter Tahira left their rented room in the slum and moved to the village home. Mrs. Hasina alleges that the police have no justification for the arrest of her innocent brother. She is concerned about the future of her own and her brother’s financial livelihood.
Case 2:
On 8 January 2007, around 11:00 AM, Liton, who makes paper packets, left his house to deliver his products to customers. At 12:00 PM, police arbitrarily arrested Liton from the Postagola area then allegedly fabricated a charge against him, implicating him in a bomb explosion and accusing him of damaging public property. He was produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court by the Shyampur Police. The Magistrate ordered to have Liton sent to jail, following the police’s objections to grant him bail. After two hours Liton’s family came to know about his arrest, and Liton’s widowed mother, Mrs. Jotsna, immediately sought means to have her son released. She contacted a lawyer, paying BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32) on condition of arranging bail for her son, and spent an additional two thousand Taka to pay for her commute back and forth from her house to the police station, lawyer’s chamber, court and jail. On 11 January the Magistrate Court released Liton on bail, and he was freed from the Dhaka Central Jail at 2:20 PM.
Liton and his family do not know whether he will be discharged from the case permanently or how much time and money will be necessary for him to be freed of the fabricated charge. Liton’s mother-in-law mourns the fact that the family will be socially stigmatized because of his arbitrary arrest and detention, though family and friends know Liton as a hardworking man who has never committed crime in his life.
Case 3:
Mr. Mosharraf Hossain was waiting in front of the Dhaka Central Jail. He has a small hosiery factory at Mirpur section no. 1., where Md. Ripon (26) is the only worker. When Ripon did not come to work on 7 January morning, Mosharraf went to look for his employee, who has no relative residing in Dhaka. Having searched in many places, Mosharraf came to know that Ripon was arrested by the Shah Ali police on his way back home on 6 January evening. The police had allegedly implicated Ripon in a pending snatching charge, and he was being detained in prison. Without Ripon, Mosharraf’s hosiery factory would have to close. In order to save his own livelihood, Mosharraf decided to have Ripon released from jail. He contacted a lawyer and paid BDT 4,000 (USD 57.55) to arrange bail for Ripon. On 10 January afternoon, the lawyer informed Mosharraf that Ripon’s bail was granted and that he would be released from jail on the following morning (11 January). Mosharraf was waiting until 5:10 PM for his employee, who has no relative but an elderly mother in his village home in the Pabna district. He had not been released at the time of our investigation.
Mosharraf added that he pays Taka 3,000 (USD 43.17) per month to Ripon as his wage; the money spent to arrange Ripon’s bail will be deducted from his salary.
Mosharraf does not know what will happen to Ripon as a consequence of having been falsely implicated in a snatching case. Mosharraf thinks that it is his human duty to save a helpless man’s life as well as to protect his own livelihood. He will have to look for an alternate to Ripon, if the latter’s livelihood is crippled with the fabricated charge.
Case 4:
Md. Islam Babu (22), who lives at 24/1 Lalmohon Street in the Dholaikhal area under the Sutrapur police station, is salesman at a plastic pipe shop in the Alubazar area under the Kotwali police station in Dhaka. During the blockade on 9 January, Babu’s employer, Mr. Jafarullah, entrusted Babu with the keys to the shop. Coming to the shop around 10:00 AM, Babu was determining whether he should open the shop when a clash between the police and political activists erupted, and demonstrators and pedestrians alike began to run away. Babu decided not to flee as he was responsible for the shop. The police reportedly beat Babu on the scene and arrested him. On the same day, Babu was sent to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court where he was implicated in the police attack and charged with damaging public property. The Court ordered Babu to be sent to jail.
Babu’s father Mr. Abdul Malek, who also works at a plastic pipe shop in the same area, was at a loss when he learned of his son’s arrest. He requested his employer, Mr. Shah Alam, to arrange bail for his son. On 10 January, Mr. Shah Alam, paying BDT 1,000 (USD 14.39), managed to convince one of his lawyer friends to plead for Babu, and the latter was supposed to be released from jail on 11 January. Mr. Malek was frustrated as he waited in front of the Dhaka Central Jail with his employer Mr. Shah Alam. Both he and Mr. Alam are worried that the police may continue to harass Babu and that unexpected expenses might arise in efforts to be rid of the case against Babu.
Case 5:
Md. Sagar (25), a green coconut seller on the footpath at Natun Bazar, lives in the Natun Bazar area under the Badda police station in Dhaka. On 7 January, around 12:00 pm, Sagar was returning home for lunch by a rickshaw from his shop. On the way, the Badda police stopped his rickshaw and arrested him. Sagar’s brother-in-law, Mr. Abul, went to the Badda police station on the same afternoon to release Sagar. The police refused to release Sagar saying that he was arrested by the order of superior officers. A Sub Inspector, whose name tag was removed from his uniform, allegedly said that for BDT 1,000 (USD 14.39), he would produce Sagar before the Court under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure so that Sagar could easily be released on bail. Abul paid BDT 600 (USD 8.63), appealing to the police officer to produce Sagar under section 54. After Abul’s repeated request, the police agreed.
Mr. Abul then made contact with a lawyer to whom he paid a total of BDT 2,500 (USD 35.97) to arrange bail for Sagar. The lawyer told Abul that Sagar might be released on January 11 or 12, and asked him to wait in front of the prison. Abul was waiting for Sagar outside the jail gate since the early afternoon of 11 January, but Sagar was not released at the time of our investigation.
Case 6:
Md. Abdur Rahim (14), a screen print worker, was arbitrarily arrested on suspicion by the Savar police in the evening on his way back home in Joynabari village. Rahim’s father Mr. Abul, a day labourer, rushed to the Savar police station to have his son released. It is alleged that the police took BDT 500 (USD 7.19) from Mr. Abul and promised that they will release his juvenile son from custody. Instead, the police produced Rahim before the Magistrate Court for public property damage. Abul spent BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32) to have his son released on bail. The lawyer assured him many times that Rahim would be released, so Abul spends his days in front of the Dhaka Central Jail to receive his son without knowing the reason of delays. Even in his young age, Rahim contributes to the family.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On January 7, the Awami League-led Grand Alliance of opposition parties launched its three-day transport blockade in Bangladesh in protest to President Iajuddin Ahmed’s seeming manipulation of the then-imminent elections on January 22. The blockade was meant to suspend economic activity in the nation for its duration. Through their efforts, the alliance aimed to pressure the interim government to initiate reforms (e.g. the appointment of new election commission officials) necessary to make the elections free and fair. Led by the former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, the opposition rejected the bans against their protest, and demanded the elections to be postponed until reforms are implemented. Hasina’s alliance, along with the Jatiya Party and the Liberal Democratic party all decided to boycott the election.
The police banned protest activities and promised to deal strictly with offenders on January 6. The following day, in response to the blockade, twelve-thousand troops were deployed across the nation, and chaos ensued as police batons, rubber bullets, and tear gas clashed with protesters’ stones, bricks, and homemade bombs. The violence resulted in hundreds of injuries of both police and protesters. In the midst of this tumult, police admit to detaining dozens of activists.
The AHRC believes that not dozens but approximately three thousand persons were arbitrarily arrested and detained in Dhaka alone during this time. Even though the AHRC has repeatedly petitioned the government authorities of Bangladesh to hold its law-enforcement agents accountable, the policing system continues to flourish in its corruption. The violation of the fundamental rights of citizens continues to play out in scenarios such as those depicted here: arbitrary arrests, implication of fabricated charges, unjust detentions, imposition of financial losses upon the poor sections of society, harassment and social stigmatization.
SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please send a letter immediately to the relevant Bangladesh government authorities listed below urging them to take prompt action to investigate the conduct of the law-enforcing agents in the alleged arbitrary arrests, torture and detention of such a huge number of persons and the fabricated charges against them. Please also send your letters to the relevant UN agencies listed below.
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SAMPLE LETTER
Dear __________,
BANGLADESH: Around 3000 people arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police
I am writing to express my grave concern about the alleged arbitrary arrest, torture and detention en masse of approximately three thousand persons, including the names mentioned below, under fabricated charges by the law-enforcement agencies in Dhaka and other places of Bangladesh in a span of a week in January 2007. I was also informed that there is allegation that the Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Mr. A B M Bazlur Rahman, fixed a certain target number of arrests for each of the police stations under his jurisdiction. It is believed, therefore, that the officers of these police stations, including the alleged perpetrators mentioned below, have indiscriminately arrested protesters including innocent persons, using section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which gives police officers the authority to arrest any person on suspicion without an arrest warrant from a judicial authority. I am deeply concerned that such arbitrary arrests and detentions violate Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the Bangladesh is a state party.
Furthermore, according to the information I have received, certain law-enforcement agents have implicated the victims of their arbitrary arrests with pending and/or fabricated charges, including snatching, bombing, damaging public property, attacking police, and stealing, and produced them before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court under these various false charges. Some police officers have even been reported to have been bribed by the family members of the victims in return for their release or a lesser charge. Examples of specific cases are summarized below:
Case 1
Name of victim: Md. Saiful, alias Madari, aged 25, a worker of a biscuit supplying company, son of Mr. Amruddin, living in Dogair Bazar area, under the jurisdiction of the Demra police
Alleged perpetrators:
1) Officers of the Demra Police Station (for the arbitrary arrest and production of the victim before court under an alleged fabricated charge)
2) A Sub Inspector at the Demra Police Station (for alleged bribery)
Date of arbitrary arrest: At around 8:00pm on 5 January 2007
Place of arbitrary arrest: Dogair Bazar area in the Demra slum
The Demra police allegedly arrested the victim near his home on 5 January 2007. When Saiful’s family went to the station to see him, an unidentified Sub Inspector was allegedly asked for BDT 2,000 (USD 28.77) from his elder sister in return for Saiful’s release from custody. However, she could not pay that amount. On January 6, the Demra police produced the victim before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court including his name in an alleged fabricated charge along with the names of many others being arbitrary arrested. The CMM Court then ordered to remand Saiful to the Dhaka Central Jail. The victim’s family then contacted a lawyer who promised to arrange bail for Saiful for BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32); she was forced to borrow money to be able to pay the lawyer. The lawyer told the family that the victim will be granted and that she should receive her brother at the Dhaka Central Jail’s gate by 9:00am on January 11. Although she waited all day, the victim was not released from the detention at the time of our investigation. The victim’s employer fired him on the morning following his arbitrary arrest, and his wife and daughter have already vacated their rented room in the slum for fear of being unable to pay rent. The victim’s sister alleges that the police have no justification for the arrest of her innocent brother. The family is now concerned about the future of its financial livelihood.
Case 2
Name of victim: Mr. Md. Liton, aged 26, a paper packet distributer, son of the late Mr. Abdur Rashid, living in the Postagola area
Alleged perpetrators:
1) Dhaka Metropolitan Police (for the victim’s arbitrary arrest)
2) Officers of the Shyamur Police Station (for detention and production of the victim before court under alleged fabricated charges)
Date of incident: At around noon on 8 January 2007
Place of incidence: Postagola area
On 8 January 2007, the police allegedly arbitrarily arrested the victim from the Postagola area then allegedly fabricated a charge against him, implicating him in a bomb explosion and accusing him of damaging public property. He was produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court by the Shyampur Police, where the Magistrate remanded the victim to jail, following the police’s objections to grant him bail. On January 11, the Magistrate Court released Liton on bail and he was freed from the Dhaka Central Jail at 2:20pm. However, the victim does not know whether he will be discharged from the case permanently or how much time and money will be necessary for him to be freed of the fabricated charge. The victim’s mother-in-law mourns the fact that the family will be socially stigmatized because of his arbitrary arrest and detention, though family and friends know the victim as a hardworking man who has never committed crime in his life.
Case 3
Name of victim: Md. Ripon, aged 26, a worker of a hosiery factory, living in a mess at Mirpur section no.1, under the jurisdiction of the Shah Ali police in the Dhaka city, hailed from Pabna district
Alleged perpetrators: Officers of the Shah Ali Police Station (for the arbitrary arrest, detention and alleged false implication in pending charge of the victim)
Date of incident: In the evening of 6 January 2007
Place of incidence: Mirpur area
On the evening of 6 January 2007, the victim was arbitrarily arrested by the Shah Ali police on his way home in Mirpur. His employer Mosharraf learned that the police had allegedly implicated Ripon in a pending snatching charge and that he was being detained in prison. Mosharraf contacted a lawyer and paid BDT 4,000 (USD 57.55) to arrange bail for Ripon. On January 10, the lawyer informed Mosharraf that the victim’s bail was granted and that he would be released from jail on the following morning. Mosharraf was waiting until 5:10pm for his employee, but he had not yet been released at the time of our investigation.
Case 4
Name of victim: Mr. Islam Babu, aged 22, a worker of plastic pipe shop at Alubazar area, son of Abdul Malek, living in house no. 24/1 Lalmohon Shah Street at Dholaikhal under the Sutrapur Police Station in Dhaka city
Alleged perpetrators:
1) Dhaka Metropolitan Police (for the victim’s arbitrary arrest and brutality)
2) Officers of the Sutrapur Police Station (for the production of the victim before court under alleged fabricated charges)
Date of incident: At around 10:00am on 9 January 2007
Place of incidence: Alubazar area
The victim was arbitrary arrested near the shop, where he works in the Alubazar area, on 9 January 2007. During a clash between police and political activists due to the blockade, the police allegedly beat the victim, an innocent bystander, on the scene and arrested him. On the same day, the victim was sent to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court where he was implicated in the attack against the police and charged with damaging public property. The Court remanded the victim to jail. The victim was released on bail on January 11 after his family paid BDT 1,000 (USD 14.39) to a lawyer. The victim and his family are worried that the police may continue to harass the victim and that unexpected expenses might arise in efforts to be rid of the case against the victim.
Case 5
Name of victim: Mr. Md. Sagar, aged 25, a green coconut seller at Nuton Bazar under the Badda police station area in the Dhaka city, son of Mr. Ali Bhuyan, hailed from Chargasia village under the jurisdiction of the Hijla police station in the Barisal district
Name of alleged perpetrators:
1) Officers of the Badda Police Station (for the arbitrary arrest and detention)
2) a Sub Inspector of the Badda Police Station (for alleged bribery)
Date of incident: At around noon on 7 January 2007
Place of incidence: Natun Bazar area
On 7 January 2007, the victim was returning home when the Badda police arrested him. The police allegedly refused to release the victim saying that he was arrested by the order of superior officers. Also, it is reported that a Sub Inspector, whose name tag was removed from his uniform, asked for BDT 1,000 (USD 14.39) from the victim brother-in-law, saying that he would then only produce the victim before the Court under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure so that he could easily be released on bail. The brother-in-law appealed to the officer to do so for BDT 600.00 (USD 8.63) and the police agreed. Mr. Abul then made contact with a lawyer to whom he paid a total of BDT 2,500 (USD 35.97) to arrange bail for the victim. The lawyer told the brother-in-law that the victim might be released on January 11 or 12. The brother-in-law waited in front of the prison since the early afternoon of 11 January, but the victim was not released at latest report.
Case 6
Name of victim: Md. Abdur Rahim, aged 14, a worker at a screen printing factory, son of Mr. Abul, living in Joynabari village under the Savar police station in Dhaka district
Name of alleged perpetrator: Officers of the Savar Police Station (for the arbitrary arrest, detention, production of the victim before court under the alleged fabricated charge and alleged bribery)
Place of incidence: Joynabari village
A minor named Md. Abdur Rahim, a screen print worker, was arbitrarily arrested on suspicion by the Savar police in the evening on his way back home in Joynabari village. The boy’s father rushed to the Savar police station to have his son released. The police allegedly asked for BDT 500 (USD 7.19) from the father in exchange for his son’s release. However, the police produced the victim before the Magistrate Court for the charge of public property damage. The victim’s father paid BDT 6,000 (USD 86.32) to a lawyer to have his son released on bail. The lawyer assured the father many times that the victim would be released. The father spends his days in front of the Dhaka Central Jail to receive his son without knowing the reason of delays. The victim contributes to the family even in his young age.
I want to draw your attention that no action has been taken against any of the responsible officers mentioned above in those cases. The families of the victims are living in extreme fear of further harassment by the police and other law-enforcement agencies and also of incurring further financial losses.
In light of the above, I request you ensure that a prompt, fair and thorough investigation is taken into the conduct of the law-enforcement agencies of Bangladesh regarding the alleged arbitrary arrests, torture, harassment and detention under fabricated charges of these persons concerned. If it is found that the alleged perpetrators committed crimes against the victims, they should and they must be made accountable for their actions. Perpetrators should be indicted under section 211 of the Penal Code of Bangladesh, and the victims should be released from the arbitrary detention as well as freed from the fabricated charges. I also urge you to take action to ensure the security of the families of the victims from possible harassment and threats from the police or other law enforcement personnel while the investigation is ongoing. Moreover, they must be adequately compensated, and the compensation should include the arrangement of adequate medical treatment for the victims.
I am concerned that such mass arbitrary arrests took place despite the Bagladesh’s presence to the UN Human Rights Council and its ratification of the ICCPR and the Convention Against Torture (CAT).
Therefore, I strongly urge you, together with other government officials in Bangladesh, to take swift and genuine action to reform the current law enforcement system by introducing better training programmes as well as enforcing strict discipline and punishment for any misconduct and crimes against the ordinary citizens of Bangladesh.
I look forward to your urgent intervention in this matter.
Yours sincerely,
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PLEASE SEND YOUR LETTER TO:
1. Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed
Chief Adviser
Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Office of the Chief Advisor
Tejgaon, Dhaka
BANGLADESH
Tel: +880 2 8828160-79, 9888677
Fax: +880 2 8113244 or 3243 or 1015 or 1490
E-mail: pm@pmobd.org or psecretary@pmobd.org (to the Secretary)
2. Mr. Sayed J. R. Modassir Hossain
Chief Justice
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Supreme Court Building
Ramna, Dhaka-1000
BANGLADESH
Tel: +88-02-9562792
Fax: +88-02-9565058
3. Mr. A J Mohammad Ali
Attorney General of Bangladesh
Office of the Attorney General
Supreme Court Building
Ramna, Dhaka-1000
BANGLADESH
Tel: +88-02-9562868
Fax: +88-02-9561568
4. Mr. Khoda Bokhs Chowdhury
Inspector General of Police (IGP)
Bangladesh Police
Police Headquarters’
Fulbaria, Dhaka-1000
BANGLADESH
Tel: +88-02-9562054 or 7176451 or 7176677
Fax: +88-02-9563362 or 9563363
5. Mr. S M Mizanur Rahman
Director General (DG)
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
RAB Headquarter
Uttara, Dhaka
BANGLADESH
Tel: +88-02- 8961105 (O)
Fax: +880 2 8962884 (O)
6. Mr. A B M Bazlur Rahman
Commissioner
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)
The DMP Headquarters
1, Shaheed Captain Monsur Ali Road
Ramna, Dhaka-1000
BANGLADESH
Tel: +88-02-8322746 (O), or +88-02- 8316248 or +88-02-8855922 (R)
Fax: +88-02-8322746 (O)
7. Professor Manfred Nowak
Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture
Attn: Mr.Sarir Syed
C/o OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Geneva 10
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 22 917 9230
Fax:+41 22 9179016 (general)
8. Ms. Leila Zerrougui
Working Group on arbitrary detention
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Geneva 10
SWITZERLAND
Fax: +41 22 917 9006 (ATTENTION: WORKING GROUP ARBITRARY DETENTION)
9. Mr. Leandro Despouy
Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
Att: Sonia Cronin
Room: 3-060
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Geneva 10
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 22 917 9160
Fax: +41 22 917 9006 (ATTN: SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR INDEPENDENCE JUDGES & LAWYERS)
Thank you.
Urgent Appeal Programme
Asian Human Rights Commission (ahrchk@ahrchk.org)
