5 jailed for life term for 2005 murder
A Pirojpur court on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life-term imprisonment for shooting and killing a man during a robbery at Bhandaria in Pirojpur in 2005...
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Bangladesh national killed in BSF firing near Panchagarh frontier
A Bangladesh national was killed in firing by the Indian Border Security Force at a location in Indian territory, adjacent to the Bhitargarh border under Sadar upazila in Panchagrah early Saturday.
Bangladeshi youth shot dead by BSF
The Border Guard Bangladesh director general, Major General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, on Saturday said they returned Indian intruders following a legal procedure, but it would be tough in the coming days if border killings continued...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES: Mayer Dak files 100 ICT complaints
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...
Delhi should deliver on pledges to end border killing
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force reaffirming not to use lethal weapons in border management is welcome. The statement was made at the conference between the director generals of the border forces of India and Bangladesh...
BGB-BSF DG-LEVEL CONFERENCE: Dhaka for joint inspection for any construction in 150 yards of border
The Border Guard Bangladesh has pressed for joint inspection and joint record of discussion engaging representatives of both sides for the construction of any permanent structure or barbed wire fence in the 150 yards of...
Dhaka, Delhi agree border management without killing
Reaffirming the need for synergistic efforts to uphold human rights and curb violence on the border, Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to work together with utmost synergy by enhancing joint patrolling, vigilance, and intensifying public awareness programmes...
KILLING OF MUGHDHO, JAMAAT LEADER: Complaints filed with ICT
The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...
July mass killing trial could be completed before election: law adviser
The Bangladesh interim government law adviser, Asif Nazrul, on Wednesday hoped that the trial of the 鈥楯uly mass killings鈥� could be completed before the next national election as the interim government was committed to ensuring justice for brutal, inhuman killings committed during the July-August uprising.
14 YEARS OF FELANI MURDER:聽End to border killings by India demanded
Rights bodies, student platforms and other organisations on Tuesday remembered the day of the killing of Felani Khatun by India鈥檚 Border Security Force 14 years ago with renewed protests and...
End to border killing must for good relations with India
JUSTICE for the murder of Felani Khatun at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force on January 7, 2011, could be a point of departure towards improved border management and relations between Bangladesh and India. But it has not happened. The photograph of Felani hanging from the fence created a global stir and readily became a symbol of...
Passports of deposed Bangladesh PM Hasina, others revoked over July killings
The Department of Immigration and Passports has cancelled passports of 97 individuals, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over their alleged involvement in killings during the...
21 extrajudicial killings reported聽in 2024
At least 21 extrajudicial killings had been reported in 2024 and of them, 12 were reported since the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government took oath on August 8 after...
BDR massacre commission to identify local, foreign conspiracies: chief
The chairman of the newly formed National Independent Commission formed to reinvestigate the 2009 BDR massacre, Major General (retired) ALM Fazlur Rahman, said on Thursday...
Border killings never acceptable: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said that border killings should never be accepted under any circumstances...
Protesters condemn 鈥榮ecret killing鈥� of mass-uprising participants
Different organisations on Thursday demonstrated in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, condemning attacks on and murders of students who participated in the student-led mass uprising in July-August...
Journalist Killing During Mass Uprising: Ex-SMP ADC on 5-day remand
A Sylhet court on Thursday put a former additional deputy commissioner of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police on five-day remand in a case filed for shooting a photojournalist to death during the student-led mass uprising in July...
Torture, killing of Bangladeshis on border should stop
THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India鈥檚 Border Security Force once again questions the commitment of Indian authorities to ending border killing. The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh found the bodies on three spots along the border with India near the River Ichhamati at Sharsha in Jashore on December 18. While the...
BDR Massacre: Gono Odhikar Parishad faction wants formation of commission
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction on Wednesday demanded formation of a national enquiry commission for fresh investigation into then Bangladesh Rifles killings that took place at the then BDR headquarters in Dhaka on February 25, 2009...
Russia detains suspect in general鈥檚 killing
Russia has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army鈥檚 chemical weapons division, investigators said Wednesday, a day after the general and his aide were killed by a blast in Moscow...
Killing of Intellectuals: Answer to Zahir Raihan鈥檚 disappearance could solve mystery: Jamaat
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar on Saturday said that the mystery over the killings of intellectuals would be revealed if the mystery of missing filmmaker Zahir Raihan was revealed...
BNP for RAB鈥檚 abolition
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party recommended the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion, citing allegations of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings...
Commission to investigate extrajudicial killings demanded
Rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra on Monday demanded formation of a commission to investigate all the incidents of extrajudicial killing reported till now...
Lessons from Syria鈥檚 struggle for freedom
THE question of who ousted Bashar al-Assad has dominated countless headlines, debates and think tank discussions. Yet, for the millions of Syrians whose lives have been shaped 鈥� and shattered 鈥� by decades of brutal governance, this question is a distraction. The real focus should be on the human cost of oppression, the erasure of freedoms and the...
Woman held for killing businessman in Dhaka
The police have arrested a woman accused of brutally killing Old Dhaka plastic factory owner Nazrul Islam who was found dead at his rented house in the capital鈥檚 Posta area about five days ago...
Murder case filed as protests on over killing of lawyer on Ctg court premises
Four days after lawyer Saiful Islam Alif had been hacked to death in Chattogram, a murder case was filed with the Kotwali police against 31 named and 10鈥�15 unidentified people early Saturday...
Justice for mass killing demanded
The Democratic Students鈥� Alliance on Wednesday afternoon held a demonstration demanding justice for mass killings during the July uprising, and financial assistance for families of the martyrs...
6 AL activists, 21 others detained amid protests聽
The police detained 27 people till Wednesday evening amid protests in Dhaka as elsewhere over the killing of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram city and clashes with the law enforcers over the arrest of a Hindu organisation鈥檚 leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari...
Political parties obstructing measures to ban AL: adviser
The adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said that political parties were hindering efforts to ban the Awami League from doing politics on charge of mass killing during the recent anti-discrimination movement...
No scope for govt indifference to exrajudicial killing
RIGHTS organisation Odhikar in its quarterly July鈥揝eptember report has enlisted at least eight people having been extrajudicially killed in August 9鈥揝eptember 30. The interim government was installed on August 8 after a student-mass uprising that spanned the month of July had finally toppled the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...