Human rights defender, Mr Gopen Chandra Sharma, has been subjected to a series of threats via mobile telephone calls and picture and text messages from 22-24 August 2009. Gopen Chandra Sharma is the district human rights monitor for the Murshidabad region of Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM). His work focuses on the documentation of human rights abuses, in particular human trafficking on the Indo-Bangladesh border.