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#Bangladesh: 'Pellet Guns Became an Instrument of Repression'

'People actually died from pellet guns, and that doesn't usually happen.'

Zeba Sajida Saraf, a researcher at Sapran discusses the evidence that security forces pursued a policy of #torture in their lethal crackdown on protesters during the July 2024 mass uprising in #Bangladesh.

'We collected that data and we found that pellet guns just ceased to be a tool of crowd control ... Pellet guns became an instrument of repression.'

Read Sapran's report, 'Deadly in Disguise' 👉 https://irct.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Palletgun-Report-1.pdf

Responding to the crisis in Bangladesh, the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium supports national legal and health-based organisations working to document cases and rehabilitate survivors.

Learn more about the work of IRCT's member and partners in Bangladesh at 👉 www.IRCT.org/Bangladesh

#MentalHealthMatters #ProtectTheProtest #TortureFreeTrade #HumanRights