Saturday, September 17, 2022

JOINT STATEMENT: BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh express their deep concern about the disturbance in the area over the love of a sexual minority lesbian girl in Lakshipur.


Bangladeshi human rights organizations Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers Bangladesh have expressed their deep concern over the recent chaos about the incident of same-sex love and marriage of two homosexual lesbian teenagers came to light in Lakshipur district.

BIHR and JusticeMakers of Bangladesh strongly demanded that the accused persons involved in endangering the personal safety and security of the sexual minority lesbian teenagers in Sadar Upazila of Lakshipur district by exposing their love and marriage incidents should be quickly identified, arrested, and impartially investigated, and the perpetrators should be given exemplary punishment at the end of a speedy and transparent trial process. .

According to the news published on 16 September 2022 in the online newspaper Rising BD.com, it is known that there has been a commotion over the ' homosexual love ' of two girls in Lakshmipur. After getting married in 2021 through a notary public, information was leaked after one and a half years. Discussion and criticism is going on in the area.

According to local sources, they had a love relationship for about 5 years. Currently, the families of both the girls are spending their days in deep worry. According to family sources, a love relationship developed between the SSC examinee and the student of Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila on the basis of kinship.

On July 8, 2021, they got married through a notary public using pseudonyms. After that, they continued their conjugal life secretly for one and a half years. Last Tuesday (September 13) one of the girls family fix the  date for marry. But before that, someone else sent a copy of the marriage affidavit to the groom's house. It breaks one's marriage. Later the locals and family members came to know about it.

A lesbian teenager says, 'First we were friends and then we love each otherLater we got married through affidavit to perpetuate the relationship. In this regard, the local UP chairman said, "It is a very disgraceful and reprehensible incident. Action will be taken through discussion. '

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh Secretary General and LGBT rights activist Advocate Shahanur Islam has expressed deep concern over the revelation of same-sex love and marriage of sexual minority homosexual lesbian teenagers.

Advocate Shahanur Islam feels that there is a possibility of destroying the lives of the homosexual teenagers now that the same-sex love and marriage of the sexual minorities are revealed in public. Advocate Shahanur Islam said that how the girls protect themselves from the homophobic people of Bangladesh and continue their future lives is now a matter of concern.

At the same time, by respecting the sexual orientation of sexual minority gay teenagers, Advocate Shahanur Islam urges to the police administration to take necessary measures so that they can continue their love and married life free from all kinds of discrimination, deprivation, fear and violence from their families, society and the state.

Advocate Shahnur Islam believes that the love and marriage of a sexual minority homosexual lesbian girl in Lakshipur is not an isolated incident in Bangladesh, but there are sexual minority homosexual lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are existing all over Bangladesh.

Due to the existing Section 377 of the Bangladesh Penal Code that criminalized homosexuality in Bangladesh,  social unacceptance and intolerance, state persecution and the ongoing discrimination, physical assault, threats, death threats, assassinations, and other violence against LGBT people, they are still facing remains them hidden from the society, Advocate Shahanur Islam thinks.

Above all, Advocate Shahanur Islam urged the relevant authorities to enact laws for the protection of sexual minorities’ homosexual lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders by abolishing Section 377 of the Bangladesh Penal Code as well as constitutional recognition.

With Best Regards

 

 

Advocate Shahanur Islam

Secretary General

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)

JusticeMakers Bangladesh

Cell: 01720308080

email: bihr.bd@gmail.com, justicemakersbd@gmail.com

www.bihrbd.blogspot.com, www.justicemakersbt.blogspot.com


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