JAPA OFFICE VANDALISM: Barishal court orders to file case against Nur, Rashed
A Barishal court has ordered the police to register a case against leaders and activists of Gono Odhikar Parishad over the vandalism of Jatiya Party鈥檚 office in the city.
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10 die from torture during interim govt: Odhikar
Different rights bodies and the families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Wednesday demanded justice for the victims of disappearance and torture as the country march with the world in observing International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today...
Sec 144 slapped at Galachipa after BNP-GOP clashes
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.
Release of activists, end to genocide, occupation in Palestine demanded
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...
GM Quader, 249 others sued over attack in Barishal
A case has been filed against Jatiya Party chairman GM Qader and 249 others over an alleged attack and attempted murder in Barishal city.
Investigation if disappearance victims remain in India: Odhikar
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...
Extrajudicial killing must stop
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...
Bangladesh records another 8 extrajudicial killings in first quarter
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 seeks ban on AL-led alliance
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...
Ex-ICT judge鈥檚 son named in another ICT case
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...
Chhatra Odhikar Parishad demands DUCSU polls by June
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...
Quota for July uprising injured, martyred family members protested
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.
Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee concerned over law and order
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...
Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia demand ESKL shutdown
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...
GONO ODHIKAR PARISHAD: Countrywide programmes announced for ban on, trial of Hasina, others
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...
India largely responsible for electoral system ruin: Odhikar
Rights group Odhikar in its yearly report has claimed that the Indian ruling party was largely responsible for destroying the electoral system in Bangladesh...
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities demand rights, security
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
Two arrested in connection with attack on Faruk Hasan
Shahbagh police have arrested two individuals in connection with the assault on Faruk Hasan, spokesperson of the Gono Odhikar Parishad.
Gono Odhikar Parishad leader Faruk stabbed at rally in Dhaka
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...
BDR Massacre: Gono Odhikar Parishad faction wants formation of commission
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 gets Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award
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...
Odhikar wins Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award
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...
Cultural programme calls for unity in diversity
Speakers at a cultural programme on Saturday called for unity in diversity to establish a discrimination-free society in the country...
No scope for govt indifference to exrajudicial killing
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...
Nur demands arrest of gopalganj killers within 7 days
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction president Nurul Haque Nur on Sunday demanded arrest of perpetrators of Gopalganj killing within seven days.
Gono Odhikar Parishad gets EC registration
Gono Odhikar Parishad on Monday got registration of the Election Commission with 鈥楾ruck鈥� as its election symbol....
Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee led by Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury formed
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...
Strict measures against violence, attacks, looting demanded
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...
Rizvi, Parwar, Nur put on five-day remand in metro rail vandalism case
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.
Law enforcers torture Nur in remand: wife
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...