The US State Department in its Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2014 has highlighted “extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, some restrictions on online speech and the press, and poor working conditions and labor rights” as the Bangladesh’s “significant human rights problems” last year.

Among other transgressions it has included “security force torture and other abuse, widespread official corruption, arbitrary arrests and detentions, weak judicial capacity and independence, and lengthy pretrial detentions”.

It has also said the “authorities infringed on citizens’ privacy rights” and added that “politically motivated and intraparty violence remained serious problems”.

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