Human Rights Monitoring Cell of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) has released its annual human rights report, alleging widespread violations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) during the period between January and December in 2025. According to the report, violations included communal attacks, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, violence against girls and women, land grabbing, religious persecution, and suppression of democratic rights. At least 71 people were abducted, 249 houses were searched, and 89 operations were conducted, during which looting and disruption of religious and educational activities were also reported, the release added. UPDF has put forward seven key recommendations to the next government, including initiating a political dialogue to resolve the CHT issue, ensuring impartial investigations—preferably through the United Nations—into all reported violations, recognizing indigenous peoples’ identity and land rights, stopping repression of political parties, addressing the settler issue, and ending religious persecution. UPDF also calls for urgent national and international attention to halt ongoing human rights abuses in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
