Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan Khan have been documenting alleged extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and police brutalities.
A Bangladesh court has sentenced two leading human rights activists to two years each in jail, a trial that critics say is part of a government crackdown ahead of elections.
Khan, 63, and Elan, 57, have led Odhikar for decades, working to document thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances of opposition activists, and police brutalities. "They were sentenced to two years in jail for publishing and circulating false information, hurting religious sentiments and undermining the image of the state," prosecutor Nazrul Islam Shamim told the AFP news agency.
"This verdict will send a chilling message to the human rights defenders in the country and make their work enormously difficult," said Nur Khan Liton, a former head of another of the country's leading human rights organisations.Odhikar has been documenting human rights violations in Bangladesh since 1994. It has worked closely with United Nations bodies and global human rights groups.
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