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...
The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances has submitted its second interim report to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
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...
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
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...
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 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...
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...
THE Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances, which the interim government instituted on August 27, in an early report submitted on December 14 says that it has found prima facie involvement of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister deposed on August 5 when the Awami League government was toppled in a mass uprising, and ranking officials of...
The Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday in an unprecedented gesture sought public apology for the extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and all other misdeeds it had perpetrated since its establishment till date.
The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has recommended that travel ban should be imposed on 22 members of law enforcement agencies for their alleged involvement in the...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday assured the Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances to provide all possible supports to identify the people...
FOR the interim government to facilitate any meaningful political transformation in the days to come, it should establish legal liability for victims of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killing, custodial death, and torture done under the authoritarian Awami League regime. According to human rights organisations, security forces have committed...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 recent ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance signifies a pivotal step in the nation鈥檚 commitment to rights and...
Anthropologist and documentary photographer Moshfiqur Rahman Johan has captured the in-depth reality of family members and relatives of victims of enforced disappearances in his solo photo exhibition under way at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum in the capital...
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...
THE victims of Aynaghar, where they were held in inhuman conditions during the Awami League regime, have started to recount the horrific ordeals that they have gone through. The victims come from different age groups as well as political and social backgrounds. The victims of enforced disappearances must now get justice...
THIS is disheartening and morally perplexing to see relatives of victims of enforced disappearances holding protests between their visiting the headquarters of the law enforcement agencies seeking information on members of the families while the government has so far taken no decisive steps to end their unimaginable sufferings...
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...