Some of us advocated, called, pestered, wrote, emailed about this since the Trump administration. At times it felt like a useless endeavor given the forces arrayed against this. Now let’s use this…and add phony journalists and their ‘editors’ as well (I mean absolute haters of free elections like Syed Badrul Ahsan and Syed Ishtiaque Reza shouldn’t be able to enjoy the bounties of American freedom anymore than the crooks in the judiciary like “Justice” Shamsuddin Manik).
https://www.state.gov/announcement-of-visa-policy-to-promote-democratic-elections-in-bangladesh/
Further clarification tells us that immediate family members of these crooks will be affected too.
Now is time for Canada, the UK, the EU, Australia, and New Zealand to join the United States in delineating visa restrictions for those enablers in the civil service, judiciary, and security services who violate the God-given right of the people of Bangladesh to choose their own rulers. Pity the typical over-privileged sycophants who make excuses otherwise.
At this site we’ve started a database for those who are engaging in activities proscribed in these sanctions, including time, place, and names of victims. At the appropriate time this database will be shared with Bangladesh’s development partners including foreign ministries and consular officials of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Those who are killing democracy in Bangladesh–and those who are condoning such conduct– should not be welcomed in the free world and nor should their families.