THE death of eight people at the hands of law enforcement agencies in January鈥揗arch, as the first quarterly update of 2025 on the rights situation that the rights group Odhikar made public on May 14 says, is gravely worrying. The Odhikar report lists 20 people in all having been killed extrajudicially from August 2024, when the interim government was installed after the...
At least eight individuals were subjected to extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies from January 1 to March 31, according to a quarterly report by human rights organisation Odhikar published on Wednesday...
SLOW progress in the arrest and trial of accused Awami League leaders and officers of different law enforcement and security agencies involved in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings is disconcerting. What is more disconcerting is that the authorities are yet to trace the whereabouts and status of nearly 200 victims of enforced disappearance incidents. Families of...
The investigation agency of the ICT has said they have found strong evidences of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in different places particularly in RAB-1 headquarters in Uttara, RAB-2 crime prevention company in the city鈥檚 Agargaon and in joint interrogation cell at Kochukhet in Dhaka Cantonment.
WITHOUT due process of law, justice becomes arbitrary, the rule of law collapses, and authoritarianism takes hold. The staggering scale of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings under Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year despotic rule stands as undeniable proof...
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
At least 21 extrajudicial killings had been reported in 2024 and of them, 12 were reported since the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government took oath on August 8 after...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party recommended the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion, citing allegations of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings...
Rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra on Monday demanded formation of a commission to investigate all the incidents of extrajudicial killing reported till now...
THE question of who ousted Bashar al-Assad has dominated countless headlines, debates and think tank discussions. Yet, for the millions of Syrians whose lives have been shaped 鈥� and shattered 鈥� by decades of brutal governance, this question is a distraction. The real focus should be on the human cost of oppression, the erasure of freedoms and the...
At least eight people turned victims of extrajudicial killings from August 9 to September 30 after the Professor Muhammad Yunus led interim government assumed power on August 8, according to a...
VICTIMS of gross human rights violation in the hands of the law enforcement agencies who were denied justice during the Awami League regime are now coming forward to seek legal redress. This is a first step towards police reforms. Limon Hossain, a victim of attempted extrajudicial killing, lodged a complaint with the International Crime Tribunal against...
ON AUGUST 5, the world witnessed a significant political upheaval in Bangladesh, as the long-standing autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country amid a revolution led by students and citizens. Her 15-year rule had deeply corrupted and politicised various government institutions, including the...
Law, justice, and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Thursday said that the interim government would take immediate action against those involved in mob justice, warning that no...
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...
Human rights activists, professionals and leaders at a dialogue on Saturday demanded that all cases of gross human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings should be brought to book.
WE WILL certainly bring home the benefits of this victory, which has been achieved through many sacrifices. To fulfil this expectation, the advisors to the interim government have been trying to live up to it since the beginning. The long history of an autocratic rule has its impact. Its extraction is a huge undertaking. Because reform is as difficult as it is fraught with obstacles. The road is long with obstacles...
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...