Felani Khatun ( bn, ফেলানী খাতুন) was a 15-year-old
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
girl who was shot and killed by Indian
Border Security Force (BSF) on
7 January 2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
, along the
India-Bangladesh border.
A photograph showing Felani Khatun's dead body hanging
on a border fence made of barbed wire was picked up by international media, and the publication of these photographs evoked international concern.
Th
photohad created an "uproar" in Bangladesh. After a lot of back and forth between different courts within India, the case is still pending for final judgement as (MSM) a human rights activist platform in India has launch a petition in the country's Supreme Court seeking justice and compensation for the killing of Felani Khatun. Lawyer and Human Rights Activist
SM Abraham Lincoln who has been the lawyer for Felani Khatun's Family on Bangladesh's side for the last 11 years, believes that after the covid 19 pandemic the process has lost momentum.
This Case is significant before of the international attention that it gather and also paints a vivid picture the length of struggle that people living in borderline Bangladesh and India have to go through.
See also
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Deaths along the Bangladesh–India border
Deaths along the Bangladesh–India border occur many times a year as result of people attempting to illegally cross into India from Bangladesh, cross border firing and cattle smuggling. Bangladesh and India share a 4,096 kilometer (2,545 mile) bor ...
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Murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi
Murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi refers to the murder of a 19–year-old Bangladeshi female student who was murdered after reporting her sexual assault by her Madrasa principal to authorities. She was from Feni, Bangladesh. She suffered burns covering ...
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Murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu Murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu refers to the gang rape and murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a Bangladeshi student, by unknown person(s).
History
Tonu was a 19-year-old student of Comilla Victoria College. Her father was an employee of Comilla Cantonment ...
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Murder of Abrar Fahad
Abrar Fahad (born 12 February 1998), a second year student of electrical and electronic engineering (EEE) department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was tortured and then killed by BUET's Chhatra League leaders ...
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