AL leader鈥檚 son, daughter held for torture at cold storage
Two women and a man were arrested on Tuesday in Rajshahi on charges of torturing three people, including two sisters, after confining them in a cold storage...
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Housewife tied to tree, tortured in Rangpur
A housewife was reportedly tied to a tree and tortured overnight by her husband in Kalyani of Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur district on Friday night.
Worker tortured to death at RMG factory
The police arrested a 28-year-old man at a location in Gazipur city Sunday night for his alleged involvement in Saturday鈥檚 beating a readymade garment worker to death at his workplace on Kashimpur road under Konabari police station in the city...
End to custodial torture, impunity demanded
Victims of enforced disappearance and human rights activists at a human chain in Rajshahi on Thursday called on the interim government to take urgent steps to end custodial torture, impunity and systemic repression in the country...
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...
Singer Nobel arrested for raping, torturing woman
The police arrested singer Mainul Hasan Noble at a house in the Demra Staff Quarter area of the capital early Tuesday allegedly for raping and torturing a woman keeping her confined at a house in Dhaka for seven months...
Domestic workers鈥� lives matter
THE recent revelation of the torture inflicted on a 13-year-old domestic worker in the Bashundhara residential area of Dhaka has reignited the discussion surrounding the plight of domestic workers. The young girl, subjected to relentless physical and mental abuse by her employer, endured unimaginable cruelty, including being burnt with a hair straightener...
Torture, killing of Bangladeshis on border should stop
THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India鈥檚 Border Security Force once again questions the commitment of Indian authorities to ending border killing. The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh found the bodies on three spots along the border with India near the River Ichhamati at Sharsha in Jashore on December 18. While the...
Hotline to support victims of custodial torture demanded
Human rights activists on Sunday called for the establishment of hotlines to support victims of custodial torture during the regime of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Stakes are high for interim govt
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...
Arrested accuse police of torture in remand
Police are torturing arrested people in the ongoing crackdown on students, and opposition political parties after deadly quota reform protests, political parties and...
Rights organisations call on govt to end torture, impunity
Different international and local rights organisations on Wednesday observed the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture with a call to Bangladesh government to comply with its obligations to uphold the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill treatment, end impunity and ensure access to justice for victims...
RU student leaves campus after BCL torture
A Rajshahi University student accused Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists of torturing and intimidating him at Shaheed Suhrawardy Hall of the university early Thursday...
Palak embarrassed over abduction of candidate
State minister for information and communication technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Friday said that he was ashamed of the incident of abducting and torturing a chairman candidate in the forthcoming Singra upazila parishad in Natore elections...
Two held for abducting upazila chair candidate
The police on Tuesday arrested two people including an activist of Juba League, youth wing of the ruling Awami League, on charges of abducting and beating a chairman candidate in the upcoming Singra upazila parishad election...
