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Continued extrajudicial killing, custodial death disparaging

THE continuation of extrajudicial killing and custodial death during the tenure of the interim government, which was installed after a political changeover that promised meaningful changes in governance, is worrying. Right group Odhikar in its latest report, published on July 24, says that at least 29 people were extrajudicially killed between August 9, 2024 and this June 30...

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Border killing on as Dhaka remains weak, Delhi unwilling

THE death of Bangladeshis continues at the hands of India’s Border Security Force, with at least 34 having died, after being shot or tortured by the Indian guards, during one year of the interim government. Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra says that 15 died in firing and from torture by the Indian guards in January–June. Two were killed in January, one in February, three in...

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29 extrajudicial killings in 11 months

At least 29 people fell victim to extrajudicial killings from August 9, 2024, to June 30, 2025, under the interim government, with eight people encountering such killings between April and June.

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Syria launches probes into extrajudicial killings in Druze

Syria said on Tuesday that it had launched investigations into reported extrajudicial killings in the country’s Druze heartland, promising to punish perpetrators including any government-affiliated personnel after a week of sectarian bloodshed...

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Taher killing day observed

Colonel Taher killing day was observed on Monday by different factions of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, commemorating the 49th anniversary of Colonel Abu Taher’s death...

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4 AL bodies’ strike gets no response

Bangladesh Awami League’s four front organisations, including banned student front Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth front Bangladesh Awami Juba League, volunteer front Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League and worker front Jatiya Sramik League, on Sunday failed to impose its countrywide strike, protesting at what they said ‘Gopalganj mass killing’...

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AL front bodies call countrywide strike for today

Four front organisations of the Awami League, including banned student body Bangladesh Chhatra League called countrywide dawn to dusk general strike for today protesting at ‘Gopalganj mass killing’, and demanding the cancellation of ‘illegal tribunal’ and ouster of ‘fascist Yunus government’...

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Ganosamhati urges govt to take border killings to UN

Ganosamhati Andolan leaders on Saturday called on the interim government to raise the issue of killing of unarmed Bangladesh nationals in the border areas by the Indian Border Security Force...

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Abu Sayeed murder deliberate extrajudicial killing

The murder of Abu Sayeed, a student at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, during the 2024 mass uprising was a deliberate extrajudicial killing by the police, according to a counter-forensic investigation jointly conducted by Drik Picture Library and Forensic Architecture, a London-based research agency...

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Father arrested for killing son in Dhaka

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday night arrested a man at Konabari flyover area in Gazipur for his alleged involvement in the killing of his son in Hazaribagh area in the capital...

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Husband held in Brahmanbaria for killing wife

The police on Monday arrested an individual in Brahmanbaria for his suspected involvement in killing his wife in their rented house at Bhatara in Dhaka on Saturday...

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BSF yet to hand over Bangladeshi youth’s body

The Border Security Force of India is yet to hand over the body of the Bangladeshi youth more than two days after he was shot dead inside India along the Sultanpur border under Darshana upazila in Chuadanga district.

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Charge hearing ends, order on July 14

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday set July 14 to give a decision whether charges of crimes against humanity would be framed against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven of his subordinate officials in the case of killing six protesters during the July-August mass uprising at Chankharpool in Dhaka...

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Formal charges filed against 16

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunals on Wednesday filed formal charges in a case of crimes against humanity for the killing of six youths and burning the bodies at Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, during the 2024 mass uprising...

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Two more arrested over factory worker killing in Gazipur

The police arrested two more suspects between Monday night and Tuesday morning in connection with the killing of a 19-year-old garment factory worker, who was beaten to death on theft allegations inside a factory in Gazipur’s Konabari...

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ICT begins charge hearing in Chankharpool killings

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Sunday urged the tribunal to frame charges of crimes against humanity against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven other police personnel...

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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...

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End to killing of Palestinian people demanded

Leaders of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Wednesday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the Israeli government to stop killing Palestinian people in Gaza immediately...

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Drug dealer Sani killed by rivals in Dhaka

A man identified as a notorious drug dealer was hacked to death in the early hours of Tuesday in what police suspect to be a deadly fallout of gang rivalry in Dhaka’s Pallabi area...

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BSF returns youth’s body two days after killing

The Indian Border Security Force Monday morning handed over the body of a Bangladeshi youth, who was shot dead by BSF personnel two days earlier along the Dattagram border in Sharifpur union of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar...

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BSF returns youth’s body two days after killing

The Indian Border Security Force Monday morning handed over the body of a Bangladeshi youth, who was shot dead by BSF personnel two days earlier along the Dattagram border in Sharifpur union of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar.

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Unabated border killing

The death of Bangladeshis at the hands of India’s Border Security Force has become a grim reality, with barely any effective response that would stop the happening. The death hardly creates outrage outside a few rights groups. The Border Guard Bangladesh lodges protests. The issue comes up at bilateral meetings or dialogues. Yet, there is little sustained pressure or...