Nur Khan Liton

Nur Khan Liton is a Bangladeshi lawyer and human rights activist.[1][2] He is the former chief and secretary general of Ain o Salish Kendra,[3] national legal aid organisation.[4] He has spoken out against extrajudicial killings and human rights violations in Bangladesh.[5][6] He has been critical of Enforced Disappearance in Bangladesh and called for investigation of the incidents.[7]

Career

In 1993, Liton wrote an article in the Dhaka Courier critical of Senator Tom Harkin's Child Labor Deterrence Act.[8][9] He was involved with unions in Bangladesh.[10]

On 15 May 2014, there was an alleged attempt to abduct Liton from Lalmatia, Dhaka.[11][12] This was around the time a number of prominent abductions took place in Bangladesh including the Seven Murders of the Narayanganj.[13] Liton filed a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station regarding the incident.[13]

Liton and 58 other prominent rights activists called the government to release of Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convenor of Nagorik Oikya, in December 2015.[14] In October 2016, he called for an investigation into the deaths of two leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami who were killed in an alleged gunfight with Bangladesh Police.[6] Liton told The New York Times that after the July 2016 Dhaka attack the government of Bangladesh killed at least 31 terror suspects in shootouts.[15]

Liton spoke out against the abduction of Farhad Mazhar in July 2017.[16] He criticized the extrajudicial killings committed during the Bangladesh drug war in 2018.[17]

In 2019, Liton described fires in slums as a tactic used to evict poor people from their homes following a major fire in Chittagong.[18] He called on the government of Bangladesh to interrogate a member of the Border Guard Police of Myanmar who was detained in the territory of Bangladesh and said the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh had raised allegations against the guard of being involved in human rights violations against the Rohingya.[19]

Liton was critical of the arrest of Ahmed Kabir Kishore, a cartoonist, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.[20] He criticized police visiting the home of Zillur Rahman, host of Tritiyo Matra, and described it as an intimidation tactic in December 2022.[21] He praised United States sanctions on Bangladesh as having stopped extrajudicial killings in the country.[22]

In 2023, Liton was awarded the Global Human Rights Defender Awards by the United States Department of State.[23] Liton is an advisor of Human Rights Support Society.[24]

References
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  2. Ahasan, Nazmul (2019-02-01). "Vigilante justice or what?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  3. "Fears of radicalization loom". Arab News. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. Islam, Zyma (2022-02-01). "'Shootout' justice: The first, at long last". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  5. "Rights violations eclipse development". New Age. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  6. "Police kill two Islamist party men in gunfights". Gulf Times. Agence France-Presse. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  7. "Form credible probe commission". The Daily Star. 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  8. By the Sweat and Toil of Children: The use of child labor in U.S. manufactured and mined imports. The Bureau. 1994.
  9. By the Sweat and Toil of Children: The use of child labor in U.S. manufactured and mined inports. The Bureau. 1994. p. 35.
  10. Indonesia News Service. Indonesia Publications,. 1994. p. 11.
  11. "ALERT! Attempted Abduction of Bangladesh Human Rights Defender". askbd.org. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  12. "BANGLADESH: Abduction insanity targets Nur Khan". Asian Human Rights Commission. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  13. "Rights activist Nur Khan escapes abduction bid". The Daily Star. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  14. "59 eminent citizens call for release of Manna". The Daily Star. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  15. Sattar, Maher (2016-10-08). "Bangladesh Reports Killing 11 Militants in Raids". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  16. "Farhad Mazhar Kidnap: Concern over bid to divert attention". The Daily Star. 2017-07-12. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  17. Mahmud, Faisal. "Over 100 drug dealers surrender in Bangladesh crackdown". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  18. "Fire sweeps through Bangladesh slum, killing nine". WION. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  19. cy, Lu (2019-01-28). "Missing Myanmar Border Guard Officer Found in Bangladesh Still Waiting Return". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  20. "Bangladeshi cartoonist arrested over COVID-19 criticisms". ArtReview. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  21. "22 citizens express concern over police visiting journo's home". The Daily Star. 2022-12-25. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  22. "US sanctions have stopped Bangladesh killings: rights activists - Region - World". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  23. "U.S. Ambassador Honors Bangladeshi Winners of Environmental, Governance, and Human Rights Awards". Embassy of the United States, Dhaka. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  24. "Enforced disappearances: Civil society gripped by fear". The Daily Star. 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
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