Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said Bangladesh’s getting elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with the highest votes has proved false the opposition BNP’s propaganda that human rights are being violated in the country.
BNP and certain anti-national individuals and organizations are continuously spreading propaganda that human rights are being violated in Bangladesh, said the minister while talking to reporters at the Secretariat, reports UNB.
He said that these elements have been trying to create confusion by sending wrong information to different countries.
But Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the UNHRC, proving the propaganda false, he said adding that, “it has proved that Sheikh Hasina's government is on the right track.”
“We will present before the world how the BNP had violated human rights by killing people alive through arson attacks in 2013, 2014 and 2015,” he said.
Bangladesh has bagged a 'historic win' in the election for the membership of the UNHRC for the term 2023-25, securing 160 votes out of 189 that were cast in Tuesday’s election.
This would be the fifth term for Bangladesh as a member of the 47-member UNHRC. It secured one of the four seats up for grabs for countries from the Asia Pacific Group, receiving the highest votes out of all the candidates in the region.
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