Half of Dhaka trees, 60pc water bodies disappear in 44 years
A recent study has revealed that the Dhaka city has lost half of its trees and 60 per cent of its waterbodies over the past 44 years...
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3 jailed ex-RAB officers to be quizzed over Zia鈥檚 link
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday granted permission to interrogate three former Rapid Action Battalion officers 鈥� currently on death row in the 2014 Narayanganj seven-murder case 鈥� in connection with enforced disappearance...
BNP activist files complaint with ICT accusing Hasina, 50 others
An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday filed a complaint with the office of the International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 50 others of their involvement in the abduction and enforced disappearance of him and several of his associates...
Taliban deny role in US citizen disappearance
Afghanistan鈥檚 Taliban authorities on Thursday denied involvement in the disappearance of a US citizen in Kabul, after Washington announced a $5 million reward for information on his whereabouts...
Army to take action against officers if any involved
The Bangladesh Army Headquarters on Thursday said that it would take legal action against officers whose involvement in enforced disappearance would be found in the ongoing investigation...
Threat over disappearance issue calls for early govt intervention
MEMBERS of the commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances and the victims that the commission has interviewed facing intimidation, threat and other obstacles, as the second interim report submitted to the government suggests, is worrying and warrants an early government intervention. The report, partially made public on June 23, of the commission that the...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE:聽Commission members, survivors face threats聽
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its second interim report revealed that its members and surviving victims were facing various challenges, including intimidation, threats, and other obstacles.
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...
Commission on disappearance finds 鈥榯orture devices鈥� at every detention facilities
The Commission on enforced disappearance has said they found specialised interrogation rooms equipped with 鈥榯orture devices鈥� nearly at every detention facilities despite perpetrators efforts to destroy evidence after post-August 5, 2024 period...
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...
Disappearance commission鈥檚 tenure extended till Dec 31
The government has extended the term of Enforced Disappearance Commission till December 31 this year.
Govt should break climate of impunity to end disappearances
THE second interim report of the commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances, partially made public on June 23, suggests that the culture of impunity has still alarmingly been at play even in the political changeover that happened on August 5, 2024 with the fall of the Awami League government, which had governed the country for about a decade...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE:聽Culture of impunity continues: report聽
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance has said that the culture of impunity continued to function alarmingly even after the August 5, 2024 regime change as the members of the security forces responsible are not cooperating with...
Some armed forces officers, not institutions, involved in disappearance
The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances president Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury on Thursday said that a group of individuals in the Armed Forces were involved in enforced disappearance, but not the three military services as institutions.
Armed Forces not institutionally involved in incidents of enforced disappearance
The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances president retired High Court Division judge Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury on Thursday said that Armed Forces Division, including Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy, were not involved in enforce disappearance as institutions but some officers were involved in the incidents...
Rights groups urge authorities to disband RAB
Human rights activists and victims of enforced disappearances have urged the authorities to disband the Rapid Action Battalion for its alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Each victim spends Tk 7 lakh to fight 鈥榝alse鈥� cases
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances鈥� second interim report showed that the median spending of each of the reappeared enforced disappearance victims during the Awami League regime was around Tk 7,00,000 as they had to fight fabricated cases.
Law on enforced disappearance likely in a month
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday said that an initiative was taken to formulate a law on enforced disappearance within a month...
UN team praises Bangladesh interim govt for steps against enforced disappearances
Visiting delegation of United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Monday commended the significant steps taken by the interim government to address the issue of enforced disappearances...
A crime against humanity
ENFORCED disappearances are a grave rights violation in which state agents or affiliated groups secretly abduct, detain or arrest individuals while deliberately conceal their fate or whereabouts, thereby removing them from legal protection and exposing them to torture, extrajudicial killing or indefinite detention without trial. Often used as a tool of repression in...
All involved in enforced disappearance must face justice
HORRIFYING details of enforced disappearances and custodial torture in secret detention centres that the deposed Awami League government had for long denied have been substantiated in the second report of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances set up in August 2024. The commission in the report submitted on June 4 said that more than 300 victims of...
300 victims still missing: commission
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances on Wednesday submitted its second interim report to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus with details of 鈥榟orrific stories鈥� of victims of inhuman torture by state forces during the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina...
Commission on disappearances submits second interim report to Yunus
The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances has submitted its second interim report to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Families cry for whereabouts of enforced disappearance victims
Families of the victims who were forcibly disappeared during the Awami League regime on Saturday demanded to know the whereabouts of their relatives, decrying that many of the victims remained traceless although 10 months passed after the...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE:聽Punishment of perpetrators demanded
Family members of enforced disappearance victims and human rights activists at a human chain in Rajshahi on Friday urged the government to find the whereabouts of their missing relatives and bring the perpetrators to book.
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...
State must play role to stop culture of disappearances: Tarique
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday said that the culture of disappearances had to be stopped and the state had to play a strong role in that regard to uphold human rights...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE: Govt drafts law to form tribunal, commission
The interim government has taken a move to form a national commission and a tribunal for ensuring justice for the victims of enforced disappearance and their families to make the International Convention for the Protection of All Enforced Disappearance effective.
Authorities should heed Mayer Daak鈥檚 demands
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...
Maayer Daak demands arrest, trial of perpetrators
Rights organisation Maayer Daak on Sunday demanded arrest and trial of accused leaders of the ousted Awami League and officers of different law enforcement and security agencies involved in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.