The investigation officer of the crimes against humanity case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Al Mamun testified on Monday that the police fired more than...
Leaders of the 12-Party Alliance and the Left Democratic Alliance on Sunday demanded the legal basis of the July Charter to uphold the spirit of the July uprising...
Lauding the role of non-resident Bangladeshis, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said the remittance of Bangladeshi expatriates saved the country鈥檚 economy after the July uprising...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday reviewed video footage documenting widespread violence, shooting and crimes against humanity during the July uprising across the country...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called upon non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to actively participate in rebuilding the nation through their collaboration and contributions, says a press release.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Chattogram on Thursday accepted the charge sheet against 231 people, including former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and former education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, in the case of...
The prosecution on Thursday submitted crimes against humanity charges against detained Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal鈥揓asod president Hasanul Haq Inu for his alleged role in the violent crackdown on the July uprising protesters.
I first considered calling this essay Political Zionism. But what matters more than terminology is the kind of politics that has taken root since last July in Bangladesh, and how, a year later, we are using that event as a tool of partisan gain in the name of...
A police officer on Tuesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had received a wireless message from the then DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman on July 17, 2024, ordering the use of maximum force against the July protesters and...
Home affairs adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday inaugurated murals titled 鈥楯uly Heroism鈥� and 鈥楯uly Sacrifice鈥� at the Mawa end of the Padma Bridge, commemorating the martyrs of the July uprising.
A group of families of those killed and buried as unidentified individuals in Rayerbazar graveyard in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area during the 2024 July鈥揂ugust mass uprising have called for immediate DNA tests to identify them.
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Wednesday urged the government, the two International Crimes Tribunals, and the ordinary courts to bring to justice those responsible for crimes during the July 2024 mass uprising and for enforced disappearances under the Awami League鈥檚 15-year authoritarian rule, regardless of which force they belong to...
The liberation war affairs ministry on Tuesday said that anyone proved to have made false claims would be dropped from the official list of July martyrs and July fighters and legal action would be taken against them.
A July uprising injured victim on Sunday expressed doubt over getting justice regarding a 鈥榝alse case鈥� filed by a person in Dhaka in his name, claiming that he was actually injured in Chattogram and filed a case there in that connection...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Sunday began the trial of former independent lawmaker for Dhaka-19, Muhammad Saiful Islam, along with 15 former police personnel, over the killing of nine protesters at Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka during the July 2024 mass uprising.
Writers, artists and academics said on Saturday that the far-right hegemony made the student-led mass uprising a passive revolution...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday set September 15 to deliver its decision on whether former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and four of his subordinates will be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising in the capital鈥檚 Rampura area...
The government has formed two separate four-member committees at district and metropolitan levels to supervise the activities of submitting interim investigation report aimed at relieving the individuals who were falsely implicated in the criminal cases linked to July uprising.
Cybercrime and forensic experts of the Criminal Investigation Department on Tuesday testified that voice recordings attributed to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in which she allegedly ordered the police to open fire on protesters during the July 2024 mass uprising, are authentic...
SILENT zones, or no-horn zones, in the capital of Dhaka have almost never been silent. They are, in fact, noisier than other areas where noise is usually high mostly because of a large number of vehicles honking horns. The interim government, after its installation on August 8, 2024 after the fall of the Awami League鈥檚 regime amidst the July uprising, declared the...
A police officer on Monday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, accusing his seniors, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman, DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty and DMP assistant deputy commissioner...
THE July uprising stirred a renewed sense of hope that Bangladesh鈥檚 damaging political cycle might finally be broken, paving the way for a governance system that genuinely serves its citizens. 鈥楻eform鈥� quickly became the national watchword. In response, the interim government formed several commissions to draft proposals on constitutional changes, elections...
In a significant move to ensure justice for victims of the July uprising, the government has formed a seven-member committee to accelerate the prosecution of crimes 鈥� including murder 鈥� committed to suppress last year鈥檚 nationwide student-led mass movement...
Testimony of 39 witnesses was concluded at the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday in a case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun for crimes against humanity committed during the mass uprising in July, 2024...
The grieving mother of class X student Shahriar Khan Anas, who was among the six protesters shot dead during the July 2024 mass uprising in the capital鈥檚 Chankharpool area, on Sunday demanded the death penalty for those she held responsible for the killing of her son...
Leaders of the Democratic Rights Committee on Thursday alleged that the interim government was acting like the fascist Awami League government which was ousted on August 5, 2024, in a mass uprising...
Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he was not informed about the core committee meetings held at the residence of then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan during the July 2024 mass uprising.
The interim government on Tuesday backtracked on the direct purchase method to transform the Ganabhaban into a July uprising memorial museum...
Detained former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on Tuesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the then home minister ordered to conduct mass killings to...
The police have submitted charge-sheets in 34 cases linked to the July Uprising before the courts in different parts of the country...
