Local administration has imposed section 144 in Galachipa municipality and surrounding areas of Patuakhali, following a series of confrontations between Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Gono Odhikar Parishad, for two days with effect from Friday morning.
Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee, a Bangladeshi platform working for democratic rights of people, on Tuesday demanded an immediate release of kidnapped activists and an end to genocide and occupation in Palestine by Israeli forces...
A case has been filed against Jatiya Party chairman GM Qader and 249 others over an alleged attack and attempted murder in Barishal city.
The human rights organisation Odhikar on Tuesday demanded diplomatic negotiations between the Bangladesh government and Indian authorities to investigate whether additional victims of enforced disappearance remained in India as some of previously disappeared individuals were later found there...
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...
Gono Odhikar Parishad has submitted a written petition to chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin, calling for the cancellation of the registration of the Awami League, Jatiya Party, and other members of the 14-party alliance...
Gana Odhikar Parishad general secretary Rashed Khan on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal alleging that he was tortured in custody in Dhaka by detained Rangamati additional superintendent of police Ishtiaq Ahmed during the 2018 quota reform movement...
The Chhatra Odhikar Parishad on Wednesday demanded that the Dhaka University authorities announce a specific timeframe for Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections by May and hold an 鈥榓cceptable, participatory, and competitive鈥� election by June...
Gono Odhikar Parishad-backed Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad on Monday protested at the introduction of quota for the family members of injured and martyred in the July-August mass uprising in secondary and higher secondary institutions.
The Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee, a platform working for democratic rights and freedom of expression, on Sunday expressed its concern over failure of the interim government to control the law and order situation in the country...
The Malaysia chapter of the 鈥楤angladesh Prabashi Odhikar Parishad鈥� on Thursday protested the alleged data breach and corruption linked to ESKL, a passport, visa, immigration service providing company reportedly owned by members of Sheikh family...
The Gono Odhikar Parishad on Tuesday announced a countrywide programme demanding a ban on and trial of ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and other AL leaders allegedly involved in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
Rights group Odhikar in its yearly report has claimed that the Indian ruling party was largely responsible for destroying the electoral system in Bangladesh...
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
Shahbagh police have arrested two individuals in connection with the assault on Faruk Hasan, spokesperson of the Gono Odhikar Parishad.
Gono Odhikar Parishad senior vice-president Faruk Hasan was stabbed allegedly by activists of newly formed political party National Revolutionary Council after addressing a rally at the...
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction on Wednesday demanded formation of a national enquiry commission for fresh investigation into then Bangladesh Rifles killings that took place at the then BDR headquarters in Dhaka on February 25, 2009...
Odhikar, a Bangladeshi human rights group, on Tuesday won the 19th prestigious Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award for its rights advocacy in the South Asian nation...
Bangladesh鈥檚 human rights organisation Odhikar was announced as an awardee of the 2024 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award on Wednesday, according to a press release by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy...
Speakers at a cultural programme on Saturday called for unity in diversity to establish a discrimination-free society in the country...
RIGHTS organisation Odhikar in its quarterly July鈥揝eptember report has enlisted at least eight people having been extrajudicially killed in August 9鈥揝eptember 30. The interim government was installed on August 8 after a student-mass uprising that spanned the month of July had finally toppled the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction president Nurul Haque Nur on Sunday demanded arrest of perpetrators of Gopalganj killing within seven days.
Gono Odhikar Parishad on Monday got registration of the Election Commission with 鈥楾ruck鈥� as its election symbol....
A platform named Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee was formed with Professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury as its convener to stand against any measures against the deprivation of democratic rights and freedom of expression in Bangladesh...
Nagarik Odhikar Surakkha Jote at a press conference on Thursday urged the interim government to take strict measures against all forms of violence, attacks, and looting across the country...
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed eight people, including BNP鈥檚 senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur on five-day remand in a case filed over setting fire to the metro rail station in Dhaka鈥檚 Mirpur.
Maria Akhter, wife of Gono Odhikar Parishad president and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students Union Nurul Haque Nur, alleged on Saturday that her husband was seriously tortured physically by the law enforcers during five-day remand...
The High Court on Wednesday set July 11 for pronouncing its verdict on contempt of the court proceedings brought against Gana Odhikar Parishad faction president Md Nurul Haque Nur for making 鈥榙efamatory remarks鈥� about the judiciary and judges...
Leaders of Gono Odhikar Parishad on Friday at a protest rally in Dhaka said that imposition of United States sanctions against former chief of army staff Aziz Ahmed and his family members tarnished the image of the Bangladesh Army and the country as well...