Justice Mustafa Zaman鈥檚 mother passes away
Rokeya Begum, the mother of the High Court Division Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam, passed away on Tuesday afternoon at a hospital in Mymensingh.
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CJ forwards list of 64 victims of enforced disappearance to commission
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday forwarded a list of 64 victims of enforced disappearances to the newly established five-member commission, directing...
Journalists for Justice launched
Journalists on Tuesday launched a forum titled Journalists for Justice to work for journalists and media workers oppressed during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Unresolved Adivasi questions and state reforms
AT LAMA upazila in Bandarban, different companies have been active for a long time in their attempts to grab jum lands and hill ecosystems to establish rubber gardens. One such hill is called 鈥榮oroi hung鈥� 鈥� soroi hill 鈥� in the Mro language. The Lama Rubber Industries Limited exists on 400 acres of forcefully grabbed jum land and hill forest of soroi hung...
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France protests at killing of Swarna Das by BSF
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France has expressed deep concern and protested against the tragic killing of 14-year-old Swarna Das, a schoolgirl who was fatally shot by the Indian Border Security Force, on the night of September 1 at the Lalarchak border area of Sharifpur Union, Kulaura, Moulvibazar.
CJ nominates Justice Md Rezaul Haque as vacation judge
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has nominated Justice Md Rezaul Haque to settle the urgent matters related to the cases of the Appellate Division during the vacation from September 8 to October 17.
CJ to unveil roadmap for judiciary on Sept 21
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed will deliver a speech addressing lower court judges on September 21, when he will outline a roadmap focusing on the judiciary鈥檚 independence, institutional separation, and autonomy...
SC stands beside flood-affected people
The Supreme Court administration under the directive of Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed distributed relief among 250 families in the flood-affected area of Feni and Noakhali on Thursday...
Medical board formed for justice Manik
Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital administration formed an eight-member medical board on Sunday evening for the treatment of former Supreme Court justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik...
CJ orders guarantee of defendants鈥� rights
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday directed that the lawyers of the defendants must be allowed to attend court proceedings without any...
Ex-justice Manik at ICU in Sylhet聽
Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a retired judge to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in a serious condition on Saturday night...
Justice must for victims of sexual violence in CHT
AMID the flash flood and imminent landslide risk, reported incidents of rape and rape attempts are an added concern for the national minorities living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. A rape and two cases of rape attempts were filed in the three hill districts in August 22鈥�23. A group of Bengali men on August 22 dragged an elderly woman and her daughter out of...
CJ orders ensuring defendants鈥� lawyers鈥� present in courts
The chief justice, Syed Refaat Ahmed, on Sunday ordered ensuring defendants鈥� lawyers鈥� presence within any hindrance to courts...
Former CJ Khairul sued for changing verdict on caretaker govt
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was prosecuted on Sunday for changing the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...
CJ forms 50 HC benches
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday formed 50 new benches of the High Court Division to hold proceedings from Sunday.聽
Govt must respond to Mayer Daak鈥檚 call for 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...
Judiciary is accountable to people: CJ聽
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Wednesday said that the judiciary was preferred to be more accountable to people....
Families demand justice for victims in student movement
Members of the families of those killed during the quota reform movement on Wednesday held a human chain at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding trial of Sheikh Hasina and those who ordered the shooting during the movement...
Injustice was considered as justice in past years: new CJ聽
Newly appointed chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Monday said that in the past years repression descended upon people instead of justice delivered to them.
Chief Justice pays homage to martyrs by placing wreaths
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed paid tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War, Language Movement and recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement by placing wreaths on Monday morning...
HC to resume proceedings on limited scale today聽
The High Court will resume its proceedings on limited scale from Monday, one week after the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, while High Court Judge Syed Refaat Ahmed was...
Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed takes oath as CJ
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed took oath of his office on Sunday...
Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign
High Court Division鈥檚 justice Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed as chief justice of Bangladesh on Saturday following the resignation of chief justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the Appellate Division amid student protests and allegations of an attempted judicial coup...
CJ Obaidul Hassan has resigned, Asif Nazrul says
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has submitted his resignation letter to the law ministry, confirmed law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on his verified Facebook account on Saturday.
Protesters throng SC, demand resignation of CJ, AD judges
Several hundred protesters, including students and lawyers, gathered on the Supreme Court premises and demanded the resignation of the chief justice and the judges of the Appellate Division on Saturday.
Students demand resignation of CJ, other AD justices
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on early Thursday demanded resignation of the chief justice and other Appellate Division justices by the morning to eliminate fascism from the country鈥檚 judiciary system...
Disappearance perpetrators must be brought to justice
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...
Justice, legal accountability needed for July massacre
GRAVE violations of rights witnessed during the student movement for reforms in quota for public service leading to the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League should be addressed with a credible investigation by holding all perpetrators to justice. When the now-deposed prime minister of the Awami League government...
Residences of PM, CJ among establishments vandalized across Bangladesh
Agitating people on Monday vandalised and set fire to different establishments, including official residences of the prime minister and chief justice, soon after Sheikh Hasina...
Cultural activists express solidarity with one-point demand of students
Cultural activists on Saturday expressed solidarity with students鈥� one-point demand and demanded justice for those killed in July protests in Bangladesh.