Probe body submits report to VC, protests continue
The committee formed to probe the murder of Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo on the campus submitted its report to vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan on Monday...
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3 more arrested, JCD to hold sit-in at Shahbagh today
Dhaka University authorities on Wednesday said that three more individuals were arrested at the night following Tuesday in connection with the murder of Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo...
Mime show depicts July mass killing
Renowned mime artist Nithor Mahbub depicted July mass killing during the student-led mass uprising and contemporary issues in a solo mime show at the experimental theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday...
Extrajudicial killing must stop
THE death of eight people at the hands of law enforcement agencies in January鈥揗arch, as the first quarterly update of 2025 on the rights situation that the rights group Odhikar made public on May 14 says, is gravely worrying. The Odhikar report lists 20 people in all having been killed extrajudicially from August 2024, when the interim government was installed after the...
DU observing mourning day over death of Shammo
A mourning day was being observed on Dhaka University campus on Thursday over killing of a student of the university on the campus on Tuesday night...
Bangladesh records another 8 extrajudicial killings in first quarter
At least eight individuals were subjected to extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies from January 1 to March 31, according to a quarterly report by human rights organisation Odhikar published on Wednesday...
Teen arrested for killing aunts: DB
Police on Sunday arrested a teenager in suspicion of killing his two aunts at a house at Shewrapara in the capital Dhaka on May 9...
ICT law change remains tool to try any mass killing
THE interim government on May 10 banned all activities of the Awami League keeping to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 until the completion of the trial of the party leaders in the International Crimes Tribunal. The ban meant 鈥榯o protect national security and sovereignty, ensure the safety of July movement activists and safeguard plaintiffs and witnesses engaged in the trial鈥�...
Woman calls 999 after killing father
A woman on Thursday called the national emergency service helpline 999 allegedly after stabbing his father to death after feeding him sleeping pills at his rented apartment at Savar, on the outskirts of the capital...
Pledges are meant to be kept, not disregarded
THE killing of at least 11 Bangladeshi nationals in January-April by the Indian Border Security Force shows the sheer disregard of the Indian border forces for numerous pledges, bilateral agreements and international laws. According to the rights group Ain o Salish Kendra, five were killed in April alone, three in March, one in February, and two in January. In 2024, at least 30...
Killing of Bangladesh nationals on border by India鈥檚 BSF on rise
Indian Border Security Force keeps killing Bangladeshis in border areas with the number of the killed increasing in recent months despite repeated promises by India to bring down the killings to zero...
Fresh murder case against Hasina among 408
A case has been filed against 408 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, for their alleged involvement in the murder of a man during the July-August mass killing...
Five youths arrested, sent to jail
The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Pabna on Monday sent five youths, arrested in a case of killing a 7-year-old girl after rape on April 14 in a village under Chatmohar upazila in the district, to jail...
Authorities should heed Mayer Daak鈥檚 demands
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...
ICT investigators find evidences of enforced disappearances in Dhaka
The investigation agency of the ICT has said they have found strong evidences of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in different places particularly in RAB-1 headquarters in Uttara, RAB-2 crime prevention company in the city鈥檚 Agargaon and in joint interrogation cell at Kochukhet in Dhaka Cantonment.
End to Israeli mass killings in Palestine demanded
A cross section of people including academics, politicians, and rickshaw pullers on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli offensive and mass killings in Palestine...
Continued border killing further strains relations with India
Yet another death of a Bangladeshi at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force shows a continued disregard of Indian guards for laws and border protocols. It also shows the nullity of the pledges that Indian authorities, including the Border Security Force, have made to end border killing and to never use lethal weapons in border management. On April 16, the Bangladeshi...
Protests continue for 4th day
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Palestine continued for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings...
Pro-Gaza protests continue for 3rd day
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Gaza continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Dhaka and other parts of the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings in the besieged enclave...
Gaza transformed into killing field: UN
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that Gaza had become 鈥榓 killing field鈥� because Israel has continued to block aid, an accusation an Israeli official quickly denied, saying there was 鈥榥o shortage鈥� of aid...
BMU holds gayebana janaza
Bangladesh Medical University held a ghayebana janaza, funeral prayer in the absence of a body, protesting against Israel鈥檚 mass killing in Gaza, on the premises of the central mosque of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday...
FROM REPRESSION TO REFORM: Reviving due process of law
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...
Three ex-police officials accused of killing nine calling them extremists
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday allowed a prosecution plea to show three former senior police officials arrested in a case related to an alleged 鈥榮taged鈥� extremist den raid in Mirpur鈥檚 Jahajbari where law enforcement officers fatally shot nine youths in 2016...
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...
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...