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Hefazat protests launch of UN human rights mission in Dhaka


Published : 20 Jul 2025 09:32 PM

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh has protested the interim government's signing of a memorandum of understanding to launch a mission of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights in Dhaka.

The organization has said that it will launch a strict programme if it is not canceled.

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Ameer Allama Shah Muhibullah Babunagari and Secretary General Allama Shaykh Sajidur Rahman said this in a statement sent to the media on Saturday.

In a statement, the Hefazat leaders said that the government signed the agreement despite opposition from the country's ulema and Islamic parties and the concerns of the common people.

This is against public opinion. The government cannot take such a big decision alone. 

The UN Human Rights Office cannot be allowed to operate in this country in the interests of the US. This is a policy decision of the Ulema of this.

country.

They complained that the UN Human Rights Commission usually establishes offices in war-torn and failed states, and that it is not honourable for it to be in Bangladesh. They claimed it as 'mysterious' and 'disrespectful'.

The statement said that if the demands of the July Revolution are implemented, there will be no need for the UN Human Rights Commission office in this country. The interim government should implement the demands quickly. They claim that there is a conspiracy going on through this office to interfere with foreign interests and harm socio-religious values.

The two leaders also said that the United Nations has not yet issued a statement on the massacre at Shapla Square in the capital on May 5, 2013. But they are going to open an office in Bangladesh.

In the past, various organisations have intervened in Islamic Sharia, Muslim family law, and social policies. Now, the LGBT agenda is also included in the UN's human rights philosophy.