According to police, 1,695 cases have so far been lodged in police stations across the country against those involved in the attacks, instigation and giving orders to brutally kill students during the anti-discrimination movement...
Bangladesh on Friday lodged a protest with the Government of Myanmar over the killing of a Bangladeshi fisherman, Usman, 60, an inhabitant of Kona Para neighbourhood of...
ON AUGUST 5, the world witnessed a significant political upheaval in Bangladesh, as the long-standing autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country amid a revolution led by students and citizens. Her 15-year rule had deeply corrupted and politicised various government institutions, including the...
Hezbollah vowed on Monday to keep fighting Israel and said it was ready to face any ground operation into Lebanon, after its leader was killed in an air strike that dealt the group a seismic blow...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested two more persons accused of killing Bangladesh Army Lieutenant Tanzim Sarwar Nirjon in a joint operation in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Friday midnight.
Rights activists, lawyers and politicians on Saturday urged the interim government to form separate commissions to investigate the BDR Mutiny carnage in 2009, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh rally in 2013 and students-led mass uprising in July-August this year...
Law, justice, and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Thursday said that the interim government would take immediate action against those involved in mob justice, warning that no...
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...
Human rights activists, professionals and leaders at a dialogue on Saturday demanded that all cases of gross human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings should be brought to book.
Rights activists and families of victims of enforced disappearances on Friday said that the government must ensure justice for victims of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
A group of protesters, organised by a private organisation, on Friday installed a plaque naming a street near the Indian high commission in Dhaka after Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by India鈥檚 Border Security Force along the Bangladesh border in 2011.
The Border Guard Bangladesh Rangpur region and the Indian Border Security Force North Bengal frontier held a courtesy meeting at the Banglabandha-Phulbari ICP on the...
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested the private car driver of Ajmeri Osman, son of late Jatiya Party lawmaker Nasim Osman and a nephew of former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman, in connection with the case of killing Tanwir Muhammad Taqi...
Students of the Jahangirnagar University and the Rajshahi University on Monday held rallies on their respective campuses to protest against killings of Bangladeshis by the Indian Border Security Force in bordering areas...
Border killings were a major obstacle to fostering good relations between Bangladesh and India, foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Monday.
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.
Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...
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...
Former border force personnel, who were dismissed following the 2009 rebellion in the formerly Bangladesh Rifles, on Thursday staged demonstrations in Rajshahi demanding reinstatement of their jobs...
Two fresh murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Thursday, taking the number of cases filed against her to...
A speedy tribunal in Rajshahi sentenced nine people to death sentence and five others to life-term imprisonment for killing a man in 2022...
Cultural activists and other professionals with the leaders of different political parties at an event at Central Shaheed Minar on Tuesday evening demanded justice for killings of students and...
A complaint was filed against 21 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul over the killing of fruit vendor Farid Sheikh in the capital鈥檚 Jatrabari area.
A writ petition has been filed at the High Court, seeking a ban on Awami League and cancellation of its registration due to the party鈥檚 involvement in the indiscriminate killings of student protesters during anti-discrimination student movement...
Three former lawmakers from Sherpur have been sued in separate cases over deaths of two students during the student movement on August 4, and attack on a BNP leader鈥檚 rice mill.
Indian Border Security Force returned the body of a Bangladesh national through the Shibganj border.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday stressed some key issues with India like stopping border killing, concluding Teesta water sharing agreement, and ensuring supply of essential commodities...
The interim government has decided to hold trials for the 鈥榤ass killing鈥� committed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination between July 1 and August 5 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act...
Bangladesh Retired Police Welfare Association in a statement on Thursday demanded trial of those members of the police involved in killings and torture of protesting people, including students, during protests for quota reform in government jobs...
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...