Custodial Death
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
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
Mushtaq's death still haunts suspecting minds
Several factors evoke questions as to whether writer Mushtaq had died a natural death, or he had undergone inhuman physical torture immediately after his arrest
Cartoonist Kishore files complaint 'over torture in custody'
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore on Wednesday filed a complaint with a Dhaka court over alleged torture on him in custody after his arrest under the Digital Security Act
Custodial death of Mushtaq
Nine Int'l organisations urge Bangladesh govt to repeal Digital Security Act
Nine international human rights organisations have urged the Bangladesh government to repeal the Digital Security Act (DSA) - under which both writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore ...
Digital Security Act
Demand of scrapping law tantamount to lawlessness: Info minister
The demand for scrapping law in case of any death in prison is tantamount to lawlessness, said information minister Hasan Mahmud
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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