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Rights body Odhikar yesterday strongly protested moves to repeal several key ordinances issued by the interim government and urged the government to immediately pass them in parliament instead.

In a statement, the organisation said a parliamentary special committee recommended revoking four ordinances.

These are the Supreme Court Judges Appointment Ordinance 2025, the Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance 2025, the Supreme Court Secretariat (Amendment) Ordinance 2026, and the National Parliament Secretariat (Interim Special Provisions) Ordinance.

The committee also suggested not placing 16 important ordinances as bills at this stage, Odhikar said.

These include the July National Charter Implementation Order 2025, the ordinance expanding the powers of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Prevention of Enforced Disappearance Ordinance, and the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance.

If they are not placed as bills, the ordinances will be treated as repealed and lose effect after April 10, according to the statement.

Odhikar said 68 percent of people voted “yes” in the referendum. It also alleged that the special committee recommended the repeal, ignoring notes of dissents from opposition lawmakers.

It said that during Sheikh Hasina’s long rule, state institutions were deliberately turned into subservient partisan bodies, resulting in judicial harassment, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, mass arrests, torture, and other forms of repression against opposition leaders and activists, dissenters, and citizens.

The rights body added that although BNP and Jamaat leaders and activists, as well as dissenters, faced widespread repression during that period, the then

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