28/10/2025
On 12 February 2025, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report concerning the political disturbances that took place in Bangladesh during the months of July and August 2024.
In that publication, the OHCHR concluded that grave violations of human rights had occurred during the period in question and, furthermore, attributed the entirety of responsibility for such violations to the ruling political party, the Bangladesh Awami League.
This report has come under the scrutiny of the International Crimes Research Foundation (ICRF), a United Kingdom–based, non-profit research institution whose membership comprises distinguished scholars and professionals drawn from across the globe.
Since its inception in 2013, the Foundation has engaged in sustained and methodical research on proceedings before the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh and on matters of judicial accountability more broadly.
Having undertaken a full and independent examination of the OHCHR’s report, the ICRF has identified profound and systemic deficiencies therein.
These include but are not limited to: material misstatements of fact; the deliberate omission of essential evidence; the absence of rigorous verification or fact-checking; failure to solicit or incorporate the testimonies of relevant parties; illogical and inconsistent reasoning; one-sided presentation of events; selective avoidance and distortion of incidents; and an alarming want of methodological integrity.
In consequence, the ICRF, drawing upon the expertise of its senior members, deemed it both necessary and incumbent to place on record these errors, misrepresentations, and omissions, and to present before the international community a truthful and documented account of the events that transpired in Bangladesh during the relevant period. It is in pursuit of this duty that the present report is published.
This report is the product of painstaking labour by a number of dedicated individuals, who have invested their knowledge, skill, and commitment in the service of truth. It is the considered conclusion of the ICRF that the OHCHR, consistent with regrettable precedents, has once more permitted its reporting to be shaped by extraneous political motives.
In doing so, the OHCHR has gravely misled the international public and betrayed the trust reposed in it as a guardian of impartial human rights monitoring.
The ICRF respectfully commends this report to the attention of the international community, and earnestly urges that it be read in full and disseminated widely, so that the factual truth may be understood and justice rightly vindicated.
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