Hi there,
Recently my country (Bangladesh) is going through a civil unrest. Around a 100 people, mostly protesting civilians (including innocent women and children) were shot and killed on the streets last month as the government issued 'shoot on sight' orders. A few thousand people were arrested and charged (indiscriminantly) because they are the opposition. The government further handed out death sentences to some opposition members that drew critical remarks from UN Human Rights, HRW, Amnesty International. etc in the last few days.
I published a book (2011), and wrote a pamphlet (2012) criticizing the current government's policies and activities. I have some news articles written quoting me discussing how inefficient the government has been in the past. Moreover, my family has been part of the opposition (my uncle was a federal agency chief who was forced to resign and charged with random crimes after this government came to power, never proven in court) and my father also was a military man for 30 years (colonel) and the current government is against the military (in 2009, they masterminded a mass killling of 73 army officers including 14 of my dad's coursemates at the military academy, they buried the bodies at a mass grave).
There are reports of others publishing similar things as me who got beaten up and tortured. My parents are leaving the country soon. I do not have any close relatives with who to live there. Males are constantly picked up by the state police and put in over-crowded jails. I will most likely be a HUGE target for the current ruling party since I oppose them, if they take me in and put me in these third-world, overcrowded, jails for even a week, I will die (no joke). I am getting my master's degree in the US, and won't survive back in Bangladesh in the current violence and civil unrest. Do I have a good case for asylum or should I not apply for it?
Recently my country (Bangladesh) is going through a civil unrest. Around a 100 people, mostly protesting civilians (including innocent women and children) were shot and killed on the streets last month as the government issued 'shoot on sight' orders. A few thousand people were arrested and charged (indiscriminantly) because they are the opposition. The government further handed out death sentences to some opposition members that drew critical remarks from UN Human Rights, HRW, Amnesty International. etc in the last few days.
I published a book (2011), and wrote a pamphlet (2012) criticizing the current government's policies and activities. I have some news articles written quoting me discussing how inefficient the government has been in the past. Moreover, my family has been part of the opposition (my uncle was a federal agency chief who was forced to resign and charged with random crimes after this government came to power, never proven in court) and my father also was a military man for 30 years (colonel) and the current government is against the military (in 2009, they masterminded a mass killling of 73 army officers including 14 of my dad's coursemates at the military academy, they buried the bodies at a mass grave).
There are reports of others publishing similar things as me who got beaten up and tortured. My parents are leaving the country soon. I do not have any close relatives with who to live there. Males are constantly picked up by the state police and put in over-crowded jails. I will most likely be a HUGE target for the current ruling party since I oppose them, if they take me in and put me in these third-world, overcrowded, jails for even a week, I will die (no joke). I am getting my master's degree in the US, and won't survive back in Bangladesh in the current violence and civil unrest. Do I have a good case for asylum or should I not apply for it?