Bangladesh Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act
10 years of rights commission
NHRC avoids talking about ‘gunfights’, enforced disappearance
The NHRC has confirmed that none of its panel lawyers are giving assistance to victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances
Barishal woman alleges sexual harassment, torture in police custody
A woman arrested in a murder case alleged that she was harassed sexually and tortured in police custody at Wazirpur police station in Barishal after she had been placed on remand for two days
Death in SMP police custody: SI Akbar among 6 indicted
The charge sheet in a case filed over the custodial death of Raihan Ahmed at Bandarbazar police outpost in Sylhet has been filed against six including the outpost’s sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan
Bangladesh drops one notch in 2021 World Press Freedom Index
The Index data reflect a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage. The coronavirus pandemic has been used as grounds to block ...
Bangladesh at 50
Booming economy, shrinking rights
Bangladesh turns 50 this week as an economic success story but also an increasingly repressive de facto one-party state where a cartoon or Facebook post can land you in jail, or worse
Govt enacted Digital Security Act to cling to power: Fakhrul
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the current Awami League government had enacted the Digital Security Act to cling to power by force
Statement of Editors’ Council
Concerned over abuse of Digital Security Act, demands review
Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has once again voiced concern about the Digital Security Act
Torture
Kishore kept in unknown place for 69 hrs, beaten, quizzed about cartoons
According to the case statement, a team of RAB-3 arrested Kishore from his Kakrail residence at 2:30pm on 5 May
Mushtaq’s death was ‘natural’: Home minister
The probe report regarding the custodial death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, 53, who was detained in a case filed under the digital security act, has been submitted to home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal ...
Custodial death of Mushtaq
Statements of foreigners out of diplomatic courtesy: Info minister
Information minister Hasan Mahmud has said the statements of foreigners over the death of Mushtaq are out of courtesy
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