Jyotirmoy Barua

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Jyotirmoy Barua is a Bangladeshi lawyer and human rights activist. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Barua was born on 16 September 1976 in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. [4] [5] He has two bachelors in law, one from the University of Calcutta and another from the Northumbria University. [6]

Career

Barua is a member of the Dhaka Bar Association, Cox’s Bazar Bar Association, and South Asians for Human Rights. [6] He is a legal advisor of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. [6] He filed a petition with the High Court Division questioning the lack of action by police during the 2012 Ramu violence. [7] He represented Adhikari Shuvo and Rasel Parvez, bloggers who had been charged with hurting religious sentiments in 2013. [8]

Barua accused law enforcement agencies of killing people extra-judicially in anti-terrorism operations after the 2016 Dhaka attack. [9] He represented two journalists from Myanmar in 2017 who were detained working on a tourist visa. [10] Barua and Tanim Hussain Shawon represented Rehnuma Ahmed in a petition to send her husband, photographer Shahidul Alam, who had been jailed for making comments critical of the government, to a hospital for medical treatment in August 2018. [11] Barua wrote against enforced disappearance in 2020 representing victim Shafiqul Islam Kajol. [12] [13] He signed a statement along with 42 activists calling on the president of Bangladesh to initiate investigations against the commissioners of the Bangladesh Election Commission over the 2020 Bangladesh Election Commission scandal. [14] He called for the abolishment of the Digital Security Act. [15] [16] He condemned Bangladesh Police questioning journalist Zillur Rahman. [17] He represented writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore. [18] [19] He represented Professor Morshed Hasan Khan of the University of Dhaka. [20]

Barua is a board member of ActionAid Bangladesh. [21] In July 2024, he condemned the detention of student activists agitating for quota reforms in civil service recruitment by the Detective Branch. [22]

Following the increase of violence against women under the Muhammad Yunus led Interim government, Barua said, "Such incidents are increasing because the government is completely incapable of maintaining law and order". [23] On mob lynching people. he said, "After the dictator (Sheikh Hasina) was deposed through an uprising, a group of people now believe that they can dispense justice as they want and the authorities would comply with whatever they say". [24]

References

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  2. "Bangladesh High Court orders judicial probe into communal violence". South Asia Monitor. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
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  5. hrsoftbd. "JYOTIRMOY BARUA Member ID: 8685". dhakabarassociation.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2025-03-24.
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  7. "A man was framed for Facebook posts that sparked riots in Ramu. Nine years later, he is still missing". Bdnews24.com . Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  8. "Bloggers Shuvo, Rasel get bail". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  9. "Law enforcers killing people extra judicially: Noted citizens". Prothomalo. 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
  10. Paul, Ruma (17 October 2017). "Myanmar journalists fly home as Bangladesh drops charges". Reuters . Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  11. "Send Shahidul to BSMMU for treatment". The Daily Star. 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  12. Chowdhury, Kamran Reza (1 July 2020). "Rights Group Calls for Bangladesh to Dump Digital Security Act". BenarNews . Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  13. "A new trend in disappearance cases". The Daily Star. 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  14. "Corruption allegation against EC: 42 eminent citizens urge President to constitute Supreme Judicial Council". The Daily Star . 19 December 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  15. BenarNews (2023-08-11). "Bangladesh: Proposed Replacement Of Law Used To Muzzle Dissent Much The Same – Analysis". Eurasia Review. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  16. "Why the DSA should be scrapped". The Daily Star. 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  17. "22 citizens express concern over police visiting journo's home". The Daily Star. 2022-12-25. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  18. Dhawan, Sonali (2022-02-28). "'Completely unclear': Mushtaq Ahmed's lawyer seeks answers on how the Bangladeshi writer died in jail". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  19. "Cartoonist Kishore gets bail". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  20. "HC rejects DU teacher's plea, asks him to vacate flat -". The Daily Observer. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  21. "ActionAid Bangladesh". www.actionaidbd.org. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  22. "Protest coordinators: Detention by DB unconstitutional". The Daily Star. 2024-07-29. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  23. "Rape trial in 90 days: Is it possible? What experts say". The Business Standard. 2025-03-09. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  24. Hossain, Sajjad (2024-09-20). "Lynch mobs acting with impunity". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-09-20.