THE detention of actor Nusraat Faria in an attempted murder case filed in connection with the shooting of protesters in early days of the July 2024 uprising that toppled the Awami League government is worrying. The actor, who played the role of Sheikh Hasina in the 2023 biopic Mujib: The Making of a Nation, was detained by immigration officials at Dhaka airport..
THE horror of the secret detention centres that law enforcement and security forces ran and kept victims of enforced disappearances for months and years during the Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, was evident even after modifications were made to the centres. While media reports and the report of the commission of inquiry on...
The reform commissions, recently formed by the interim government, have recommended measures to curb extrajudicial detention, enforced disappearances, and torture and cruelty in police custody, identifying these crimes as...
Two Supreme Court lawyers on Sunday in a legal notice on Sunday urged the Bangladesh government to demand $1 crore in seven days in compensation from India for the alleged wrongful detention of...
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Friday directed an investigation into the prolonged detention of Shukur Ali, a man from Munshiganj who has been languishing in Kashimpur High Security Central Jail...
A fresh batch of 150 irregular Bangladeshi migrants, who were detained in Libya鈥檚 Ganfuda Detention Centre, returned home on Friday.
The president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders accused Italy鈥檚 hard-right government Wednesday of seeking to criminalise humanitarian aid to drowning migrants, after authorities detained its rescue ship...
THE breach of Supreme Court guidelines in the wholesale arrest of citizens suspected of being involved in the violence born out of the student protests that have sought reforms in civil service job reservations is unacceptable. While it is worrying that law enforcement agencies keep largely ignoring the Appellate Division鈥檚 10-point guidelines of May 2016...
LAST weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to