Bdnews24.com, Dhaka

The US State Department in its annual country report on the state of human rights in Bangladesh said the human rights situation has worsened in part owing to the state of emergency and postponement of the elections.
The State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for the year 2007 on Tuesday.
The report said the ongoing anticorruption drive had popular support but raised concerns about whether due judicial process was being followed in high-profile corruption cases. [Read more]