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The government is going to set up seven special tribunals
for speedy trials in human trafficking cases as Bangladesh
faces risks of US sanctions for not doing enough in
combatting the heinous crime.
“Seven special tribunals will be established in divisional
cities. They will start functioning from March this year,”
Law Minister Anisul Huq told The Daily Star on Wednesday.
The tribunals will surely help speed up the trial process of
the human trafficking cases, he said.
Over 4,700 human trafficking cases are now pending, Anisul
Huq said, expecting that the tribunals, once set up, will
try the human traffickers to check such incidents.
The development comes after Bangladesh was ranked in Tier 2
Watch List for the last three consecutive years in the US
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.
As per the US law, Bangladesh is not eligible to remain in
Tier 2 this year, said the US Embassy in Dhaka in an email
response to The Daily Star on January 20.
“Either Bangladesh must show significant and increased
efforts to meet the minimum standards to eliminate
trafficking in persons and achieve a Tier 2 ranking or risk
an automatic downgrade to Tier 3,” it mentioned.
Any country ranked in Tier 3 is subject to severe
restrictions and even full curtailment of non-humanitarian,
non-trade-related assistance as set forth in Section
110(d)(1) of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act
(TVPA), it said.
Additionally, the US president may also withhold funding for
Bangladesh government officials or employees for
participation in educational and cultural exchanges.
The president can also instruct the US executive director of
each multilateral development bank and the International
Monetary Fund to vote against, and use his or her best
efforts to deny, any loans or other uses of the
institutions’ funds to Bangladesh. Only the president
himself can waive these restrictions.
So Bangladesh will hold tribunals? IIRC The Daily Star is a Indian news outlet, or am i wrong?