The High Court has held that visible injury marks are not necessary to prove torture under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013, as causing physical or mental pain alone constitutes the offence.
AN END to custodial torture, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killing and other abuses of power by law enforcement agencies was central to people鈥檚 aspirations in the post-uprising period. Yet, custodial torture continues. A man detained over the recent murder of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal leader died in the custody of the Detective Branch on November 21. The police claim that...
Sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan, prime suspect in a custodial death case, was released on bail from the Sylhet Central Jail on Sunday...
The High Court on Monday upheld the life sentence of then sub-inspector Zahidur Rahman Khan in the case over unlawful arrest, torture, and death of Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony, an Urdu-speaking youth, who died in police custody at the Pallabi police station in 2014.
The High Court on Sunday began delivering its verdict in a landmark custodial death case involving the killing of Urdu-speaking youth Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony who died in police custody at Pallabi police station in 2014...
The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014...
THE continuation of extrajudicial killing and custodial death during the tenure of the interim government, which was installed after a political changeover that promised meaningful changes in governance, is worrying. Right group Odhikar in its latest report, published on July 24, says that at least 29 people were extrajudicially killed between August 9, 2024 and this June 30...
National minority students, journalists, teachers and political leaders on Saturday demanded justice for the custodial death of Lal Tleng Kim Bawm, a member of Bawm community...
The family of Touhidul Islam, a leader of Juba Dal, the youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, did not file any case until Sunday over his death on Friday in the custody of Army-led joint forces in Cumilla...
YET another death in the custody of the joint forces is shocking, especially when reforms in law enforcement agencies are a priority policy concern for the interim government. A local leader of the Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, died in the custody of army-led joint forces in Cumilla after he had been picked up from his home on...
Different political parties and rights organisations in Dhaka and locals in Cumilla on Saturday protested at Friday鈥檚 custodial death of Touhidul Islam, a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 youth front Juba Dal.
The interim government has ordered an urgent investigation into the death of Touhidul Islam, chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said on Saturday...
At least four people have died in custody following alleged torture during the ongoing joint operations against illegal arms and drugs since September 8, raising concerns among...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...
A woman died allegedly in police custody at Abhaynagar police station in Jashore on Sunday.....
