A delegation from Hizb ut Tahrir Australia this morning visited the Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra to meet with the High Commissioner in relation to continuing imprisonment and torture of Hizb ut Tahrir members and activists in Bangladesh. Given the absence of the High Commissioner and his deputy, the delegation was received by an embassy officer, Musharraf Hussain, who listened to the delegation and said that he would bring the…

The current GOB resorted to a policy of brutal repression against Hizb ut-Tahrir since February, 2009, when the party exposed Sheikh Hasina and her government's collaboration in the massacre of officers of the Muslim Army of Bangladesh. Up till now hundreds of party members and activists, along with the party's official spokesman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, have been imprisoned under false cases. They are denied bail despite fulfilling all legal requirements.

On 8th of April, 2011 Mansur Maratovich Sharipov was arrested by officers of FSB on suspicion of participation in political party Hizb-ut-tahrir which is illegal on the territory of Russian Federation. He was placed in investigatory isolation ward.

RE: Continuing Brutal Torture of Hizb ut-Tahrir Members and Activists by the Government of Bangladesh Hizb ut-Tahrir draws the attention of all human rights organizations based in Bangladesh and internationally, as well as the civil society in Bangladesh to the continuing brutal torture of the party's members and activists by the Government of Bangladesh (GOB); and calls upon the responsible executives and members of the human rights community, and the…