Urgent Action: Fears of activist’s enforced disappearance

Indigenous rights activist Michael Chakma has been missing since 9 April 2019, when he was on his way to Dhaka from Kanchpur in Naryanganj. An organiser of a Chittagong Hill Tracts based political party, his family and fellow activists fear that he has been forcibly disappeared. Bangladesh government must urgently determine the whereabouts of Michael Chakma and, if he is under the government’s custody, release him immediately unless he is promptly charged with a recognisable criminal offence. 

Take action.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 JUNE 2019

Please write urgently in your own words or using the template letter included in English to:

Ministry of Home Affairs

Mr. Asaduzzaman Khan

Bangladesh Secretariat

Abdul Gani Road

Dhaka-1000

Bangladesh 

Email: minister@mha.gov.bd

Salutations: Dear Minister Khan

Please copy in the following target in your emails:

Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs

Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing

Email: minister@mochta.gov.bd 

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.

HER EXCELLENCY MS SAIDA MUNA TASNEEM , High Commission for the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, 28 Queen’s Gate London SW7 5JA, 020 7584 0081, Fax 020 7581 7477, info@bhclondon.org.uk, www.bhclondon.org.uk

Please check with your section before sending appeals after the above date.