The UN Human Rights Office fact-finding team has invited people, groups and organisations to provide first-hand information on human rights violations and abuses in the context of the protests from July 1 to August 15.
Submissions should be sent to
[email protected], the UN said in a press release on Monday (September 16).
The team also plans to conduct interviews with victims, law enforcement officers, medical practitioners, and witnesses.
The fact-finding mission is not a criminal investigation and is conducted independently of any national criminal justice process, the UN statement said .
The fact-finding process is strictly confidential. The team will not be conducting any media interviews during the investigation phase.
After its on-site examination and data analysis, the UN Human Rights Office will publish a detailed human rights report containing key findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
Meanwhile, an eight-member fact-finding team will be in Bangladesh for four weeks and will conduct investigations in Dhaka, Chattogram, Rangpur, and other divisional cities.
Two team members have already arrived in Dhaka, with the remaining members joining in the next few days, they added.
The formal investigation will begin on Tuesday, and the team will work independently, with findings expected to be submitted to the interim government by the end of November.
At the invitation of the interim government led by Chief Advisor Dr Muhammad Yunus, following the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, the UN team is conducting an independent and impartial investigation
into alleged human rights violations that took place between July 1 and
August 15 this year.
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