The InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance Rights (ICCPR) is conducted. 2. Methodology Given that the ICCPR covers a wide range of civil and political rights, we mainly dealt with the following key questions so that the width and the depth of the study remain in harmony: How free are all people from physical violation of their person, and from fear of it? How effective and equal is the protection of the freedoms of movement, expression, association and assembly? And, how secure is the freedom for all to practice their own religion, language or culture? In other words, in this report, we have studied the following civil and political rights: right to life; right to equality before the law and nondiscrimination; protection against arbitrary arrest and detention, safeguard as to trial and punishment; the right to political participation in the forms of freedom of assembly and association, and freedom of expression; freedom of religion; and finally the right of access to justice. In this sense, the scope of our study on the ICCPR is rather narrow. In studying the legal compliance of the ICCPR, we have first explained the international standards, followed by a sketch of the national standards with reference to the Constitution and other relevant laws. These two standards are then juxtaposed to identify the gap between international and national legal regimes. This juxtaposition of international and national legal norms is followed by an in-depth scrutiny of the gap between law and practice to underscore the negative indicators of the actual implementation of the 21