States of Emergency and the Law

Taylor & Francis

States of Emergency and the LawThe Experience of Bangladesh\nAuthor(s): M. Ehteshamul Bari\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367594909, 978-0367594909\nSynopsis\nIn Bangladesh, the absence of effective constitutional safeguards for governing emergency regimes has resulted in each of the five emergencies being invoked on the imprecise ground of internal disturbance. Two of these emergencies were even continued after the alleged threat posed to the life of the nation was over. Furthermore, during these five periods of emergency, either all or most of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution were suspended and the power of preventive detention was abused. Since no systematic and structured research has so far been carried out evaluating the Bangladeshi Constitutions provisions concerning the proclamation of emergency,suspension of fundamental rights and preventive detention, and the invocation of these .