Dhaka, Nov. 11 -- Sanjida Islam Tulee MP, chief coordinator of Maayer Daak, which aworks on enforced disappearances, has said that twenty-two people were picked up from different parts of Dhaka in just the two weeks before the 2014 election.

"Enforced disappearances were not isolated incidents but interconnected acts targeting opposition activists for political reasons," she said on Wednesday while accompanying family members of enforced disappearance victims to a meeting with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Md. Aminul Islam.

They met the Chief Prosecutor to enquire about the progress of the legal proceedings.

She said active members, organisers and influential figures of opposition parties were systematically...