Law Enforcement

Editorial

Unfortunate that police allegedly file cases to collect money

It cannot be accepted that an innocent person who leaves home for workplace in the morning, suddenly turns into a criminal after facing police

Gunfight

Deaths in ‘gunfight’, custodial deaths increase in April: MSF

The report has been prepared on the basis of the events that took place from 1 to 30 April this year

A person, wearing a helmet chops delivery person Nahid Hossain lying on the sideway during the clash between Dhaka College students and New Market shop owners and workers on 19 April 2022

Alas! Students

A number of photographs were taken during the clashes but this candid photograph would give any person an idea of the situation that many other will fail to provide

Bangladesh security forces getting widespread impunity, says a US State Department Report

Bangladesh security forces getting widespread impunity: US Report

These were said in the ‘2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ report published on Tuesday by the US Department of State

Flags of Bangladesh and US

Partnership dialogue US wants Bangladesh to join IPS

United States (US) undersecretary for political affairs Victoria Nuland has said there are economic, security and technological elements in Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS)

Editorial

Minorities attacked: Break away from the culture of impunity

Hardly any mishaps occur in Bangladesh where the leaders and workers of the ruling party or its allies are not involved. The involvement of Chhatra League always emerges, especially where it concerns ...

Implement the verdict quickly

Sinha murder trial Implement the verdict quickly

But when other people are abducted and murdered by the law enforcement agencies, cases are hindered to proceed and the judicial process is stopped in different ways

President Abdul Hamid addresses a programme virtually from his official residence, Bangabhaban, Dhaka, while exchanging views with police high officials on the occasion of Police Week -2022 on 25 January 2022

Drive out corrupt members, president Hamid asks police force

Frequent reports in the media that some unscrupulous employees of various government departments, including the police, are involved in this crime, which is very unwelcome and sad, said the president

Habibur Rahman alias Swapan and Reza Nur Mueen

Two ex-students of SUST reportedly picked up from Uttara

Another former student of the university, Shah Raji Siddiqui, gave a post on social media claiming this

Editorial

Harassment of families of enforced disappearance victims must stop

The law enforcers turned a blind eye when the families of the victims of forced disappearance went to them for help. Some of those victims have been missing for five to 10 years

UNHCR

Enforced disappearance in Bangladesh to suppress opposition: UN working group

The incidents of violation of human rights soared before the elections in 2014 and 2018 as enforced disappearance is used as a weapon against the political opposition and any criticism, according to ...

Editorial

What type of Human Rights Commission this one is

Nasima Begum and her colleagues could not answer many questions at the press conference convened by the National Human Rights Commission to highlight the organisation’s activities of past two years

Editorial

Crime cannot be quelled by ‘gunfights’

Why can the law enforcement agencies not arrest the accused alive? There is no answer to that

Editorial

Councilor killed in Cumilla The criminals must not get away

The manner in which Cumilla city councillor Mohammad Sohel and one of his associates were killed by masked miscreants paints a grim picture of our politics

Law enforcement at a puja mandap in Cumilla after incidents of violence took place

From whom will the minorities seek help?

Members of the minority community can never feel safe and secure in a country where such attacks and violence are never brought to justice

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