Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- Welcoming the report by the UN Human Rights Office, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has reiterated the interim government's commitment to upholding the rule of law and called on all members of Bangladesh's justice system, including the police, prosecutors and judges, to do the same.

"I, along with everyone else working in the interim government and millions of other Bangladeshis, am committed to transforming Bangladesh into a country in which all its people can live in security and dignity," he said on Wednesday.

The interim government thanked the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for undertaking the "most thorough independent investigation" to date of the events in Bangladesh in July and ...