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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday said that an initiative was taken to formulate a law on enforced disappearance within a month...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances has submitted its second interim report to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Leaders and activists of different units of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Sylhet on Thursday demanded forming an international standard probe commission to trace out the party鈥檚 enforced disappeared leaders and activists, including M Ilias Ali, a former lawmaker and organising secretary of the party...
WITHOUT due process of law, justice becomes arbitrary, the rule of law collapses, and authoritarianism takes hold. The staggering scale of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings under Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year despotic rule stands as undeniable proof...
The government on Monday again extended the tenure of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforce Disappearance for three and a half months more.聽
A complaint was on Monday lodged with the International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor accusing 18 individuals of alleged involvement in the enforced disappearance of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Chowdhury Alam in 2010...
Former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam, Maroof Zaman, on Sunday filed a complaint with the chief prosecutor鈥檚 office of the International Crimes Tribunal accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her security adviser Major General (Retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique...
THE crime of enforced disappearances may be considered a way to create terror in society when victims are picked up and never seen again and where victim families are left in a maelstrom of fear, uncertainty and, in many cases, economic crises.
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
A group of families of victims of enforced disappearance on Monday demanded government jobs for one member of each family and monthly allowances for the families.
International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Thursday told the International Crimes Tribunal that the investigators had found primary evidence of enforced disappearances and torture against two detained former Rapid Action Battalion officials...
Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising...
THE horror of the secret detention centres that law enforcement and security forces ran and kept victims of enforced disappearances for months and years during the Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, was evident even after modifications were made to the centres. While media reports and the report of the commission of inquiry on...
