Bangladesh interim government law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday said a powerful permanent commission would be formed to curb enforced disappearance in future.
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 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.
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...
The reform commissions, recently formed by the interim government, have recommended measures to curb extrajudicial detention, enforced disappearances, and torture and cruelty in police custody, identifying these crimes as...
The police could arrest only one suspect, out of 12 individuals, against whom the International Crimes Tribunal in the first phase issued warrants of arrest for their alleged involvement in incidents of enforced disappearance during...
THE relationship between the police and the public has for long been marred by mistrust and conflict, rooted in colonial history and exacerbated by systemic abuse. The events of the student-led uprising in July-August 2024, when excessive police force, mass shooting and enforced disappearances took place, marked a low point in this strained relationship...
Five men did not respond to the summons by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance to appear before it early November last year over the alleged enforced disappearance of retired lieutenant colonel Md Hasinur Rahman.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its interim report said that although it had identified significantly more male victims than female ones, many female victims were hesitant to come forward, mostly due to fear of social stigma.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance on Sunday informed the interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, that it found children were also victims of enforced disappearance along with their mothers.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday issued arrest warrants for deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her former security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former Inspector General of Police...
ENFORCED disappearances are widely recognised as one of the most serious crimes and a grave violation of rights that can be committed against a human being. During the Sheikh Hasina regime, which was toppled on August 5, 2024, enforced disappearances became a serious concern and were widely seen as a method to suppress political dissent...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam and law adviser Asif Nazrul, among others, on Saturday said that the trials of the prime accused in the cases of...