During the previous administration, surveillance powers and technologies were significantly expanded across military, intelligence, and civilian law-enforcement structures, often without meaningful transparency, independent oversight, or effective accountability mechanisms. Human rights defenders, civil society actors, journalists, activists, and opposition figures were among those targeted. In fact, members of your own party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were among those subjected to such surveillance and interception. Surveillance powers should be created only through primary legislation and not through rules, regulations, licensing conditions, or other secondary instruments, and overbroad immunities for surveillance and interception-related abuses should be repealed. Signed by:Access NowAmnesty InternationalARTICLE 19CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen ParticipationFortify RightsHuman Rights WatchRobert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights CenterTech Global Institute