CAT: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance
Rehabilitation (NITOR) as all the tissues were found
completely damaged. The members of the RAB cordoned off
the hospital after Limon had been taken to the NITOR and
continued surveillance. On April 6, a leading national daily
newspaper published a detailed report about the incident
with a picture of Limon's amputated leg. After the media
report, the RAB and police forced the authorities of the
NITOR to lock the hospital ward where Limon was admitted.
All the doors of the ward were locked from inside expelling
the relatives of other patients and denying entry to visitors at
that ward. The journalists, human rights defenders and
lawyers were refused entry to the hospital by the uniformed
and plain-clothed members of the RAB and the police.
The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) of Bangladesh, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, was prompt to
visit Limon after reading the newspaper report. The NHRC
Chairman advised the parents of Limon to file complaints to
seek justice from the court of law. But most importantly, the
very presence of the NHRC Chairman as well as his assurance
to Limon that the Commission would take up this case and
offer all possible support to him, brought this incident to a
level where, ostensibly, a common voice was raised to
condemn the extra-judicial killings and acts of torture and
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the RAB with
impunity.
The Limon incident is not an isolated one. While, on the one
hand, the Constitution and other enforceable laws of
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