48 HSC examinees get bail
Two Dhaka courts on Friday granted bail to 42 Higher Secondary Certificate examinees who were arrested in connection with cases filed on charges of violence and...
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Cultural activists perform in street joining protests聽
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
People in fear as arrest drives on
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as at least 150 more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service...
72 citizens condemn wholesale arrests, torture in remand
Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...
Father dies of heart attack after police arrest son
A man died of a heart attack a few minutes after the police arrested his son on Tuesday...
Student protests spread to diverse communities
A cross-section of people, including teachers, parents, civil society members, and cultural organisations, have joined the students in expressing solidarity with their demand to ensure justice for...
University Teachers Network calls for end to 鈥榮tudent harassment鈥�
Teachers from various universities across Bangladesh, united under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Repression Teachers Rally,鈥� have called for an immediate end to the harassment of students as well as 鈥榤ass arrests.鈥�
Repression and propaganda
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
Court guidelines left in lurch in arrest, detention and remand
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...
SC guidelines largely ignored in wholesale arrests, remand
Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
End to wholesale arrest, harassment demanded
Demand for an immediate end to wholesale arrest and harassment continued to pour in from different quarters.
Journalist arrested, put on 5-day remand
Sayed Khan, organising secretary of Dhaka Journalist Union and the Dhaka correspondent of The Mirror Asia, was put on five-day remand on Friday after he was picked up by a...
Wholesale arrests, night-time block raids continue across Bangladesh
Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against...
1,300 more arrested across Bangladesh in聽24 hours
Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during...
Bullet injured HSC examinee arrested at DMCH gate
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday placed bullet-injured college student Md Shihab Hossain who was earlier arrested at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital gate...
Opposition people on run amid police crackdown in Bangladesh
Fear of arrest has gripped the opposition leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and other like-minded parties amid a wholesale arrest drive by...
31 cultural bodies urge to withdraw curfew, stop wholesale arrests
Thirty-One cultural organisations on Wednesday in a joint statement urged the government to withdraw the ongoing curfew and stop mass arrests, cases, and harassment of the people in the country...
Massive manhunt continues across Bangladesh after deadly protest
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as 641 more people were arrested in Dhaka city on Wednesday in connection with violence and vandalism during student protests for quota reform for government jobs that left at least 162 killed...
Police on arrest spree after student protests
Authorities launched a countrywide arrest drive after dozens of cases were filed on charges of acts of sabotage after violent student protests that left at least 157 killed in the past...
Boy with disability not spared in wholesale arrest
A physically challenged boy was not spared during the wholesale arrests in sabotage cases filed by the police over the vandalisms during the students鈥� street protests for reforming government job quota since July 18...
Five arrested with stolen phones in Dhaka
The members of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested five people with 170 stolen mobile phones from Gulistan area in the capital on Friday evening....
Turkey detained hundreds after anti-Syrian riots, says minister
Turkish authorities said on Tuesday that they had detained over 470 people after anti-Syrian riots in several cities sparked by accusations that a Syrian man had harassed a child......
Police arrest youth with foreign rifles, bullets
The police on Monday arrested a youth with foreign rifles, bullets and magazines while smuggling betel nut sacks in a truck at Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar...
Seven arrested over rape of newly married woman
The police on Saturday arrested seven people from different areas of Dhaka in connection with the gang rape of a newly married woman in the city鈥檚 Khilkhet area on Friday night....
Three suspected members of 鈥楢nsar al-Islam鈥� arrested in Cox鈥檚 Bazar
The Rapid Action Battalion claimed on Friday that they arrested three suspected members of the banned extremist outfit Ansar al-Islam in Cox鈥檚 Bazar....
Maldives climate minister arrested over 鈥榖lack magic鈥� on president
Police in the Maldives have arrested a state environment minister, officers said on Thursday, with media in the Indian Ocean nation reporting she was accused of performing 鈥榖lack magic鈥� on the president....
ICC orders of Russia army chief, ex-minister
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday said it had issued arrest warrants for Russia鈥檚 top army chief and ex defence minister over strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure that constituted alleged war crimes...
Madrassah teacher arrested for molesting student in Chuadanga
A MADRASSAH teacher was arrested Saturday night for allegedly molesting a student at Azizul Ulum Qawmi Madrassah and Orphanage in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga...
Prime accused of UP member murder arrested
The police arrested the prime accused, Mizanur Rahman, in connection with the murder of Siddhakathi union parishad member and Juba League leader...
Police recover Tk 46 lakh stolen from businessman, one arrested
The police have recovered Tk 46.2 lakh stolen from businessman in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, Shawkat Hossain Sumon....
