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A statement by the New York-based Human Rights Watch in March 2022 said the Bangladesh government has a “habit” of ignoring the UN’s concerns over its human rights record. It had said that the government had not responded to repeated requests by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to visit Bangladesh.

The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances Chairperson Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury, in March this year, said the commission has received 1,752 complaints regarding enforced disappearances and has investigated 1,000 of them.

According to the commission’s records, there are 330 cases of enforced disappearances involving individuals who have not returned.