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International Media and Human rights groups on Shahidul Alam arrest

Human Rights Violation

Recent arrest and torture in jail of renouned photographer Shahidul Alam grabed the world media attention. Most of the international media covered the news and Human Rights organizations demanded immediate release of Shahidul Alam.  CNN reports:  Bangladesh accused of torturing....    Full story...

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Families of disappeared still waiting !

Human Rights Violation

Disappearing people has now become a well known practice undertaken by Bangladesh law enforcement agencies - a systematic technique by which a person is secretly detained for varying periods of time totally outside the law, their whereabouts unknown with the state denying any knowledge of the....    Full story...

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Formar Bangladeshi Diplomate Gone Missing From Dhaka

Human Rights Violation

December 06, 2017 Former diplomat Maroof Zaman left his residence in Dhanmondi to go to Dhaka airport to pick up his daughter, but he never reached the airport A retired Bangladeshi diplomat has been missing since Monday evening, according to Dhanmondi police. Maroof Zaman, former....    Full story...

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Bangladeshi Scholar Gone Missing

Human Rights Violation

November 8, 2017   Dr Mubashar Hasan, a teacher of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been missing since yesterday, says a general diary filed with Khilgaon Police Station.   Mubashar’s father Motahar Hossain filed the GD around 1:00am today, Khilgaon Police....    Full story...

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Bangladesh: End Disappearances and Secret Detentions

Human Rights Violation

Bangladesh law enforcement authorities have illegally detained hundreds of people since 2013, including scores of opposition activists, and held them in secret detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Bangladesh government should immediately stop this widespread....    Full story...

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New report: Human rights violations in Bangladesh

Human Rights Violation

Report by Mutasim Billah Almost a hundred people were killed by law enforcement agencies in the last nine months of this year, according to a report by Bangladeshi rights body Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) on Saturday. It published information based on the national dailies of Bangladesh. The....    Full story...

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Nine Prominent citizen get death threats

Burning Issue

Nine prominet citizen of Bangladesh gets death threat reported Dhaka Tribune. An anonymous letter sent by post to the Dhaka Tribune contains death threats to nine prominent personalities including a Supreme Court Justice. Dhaka Tribune received the letter postmarked Mohammadpur Sub-Post....    Full story...

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Bangladesh Journalists Appear to Court like Criminal!

Media and Newspaper

Image: Banglamail24.com Editor panel in the court today Bangladesh authority have taken the arrested Journalist in the court today.The above image that gone viral in the social media give many message. I first thought they are criminal though any criminal has constitutional right to be....    Full story...

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Bangladesh: Govt's recent crackdown on online newspaper

Media and Newspaper

Bangladesh government shut down more than 30 online base news outlets. Some of them were very popular but were in 'wrong' side. Wrong side means not with government side. The head of the national telecoms regulator said he ordered the closures late Thursday night, citing....    Full story...

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Justice for Iftekhar Jamil

Civil Liberty

   Image: Iftekhar Jamil, 23 years old Activist Iftekhar Jamil, a young scholar-cum-activist has been arrested by Bangladesh police three days ago without any prior charge. Initially his family has not been informed where police kept him. When I heard about the news....    Full story...

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Bangladesh Law Enforcement agencies killed 79 in just 6 months

Human rights

In Bangladesh 79 people killed in 'crossfire' or police custody in 6 months reported by Nationa's top English Daily Daily Star ( June 30, 2016 ) from the Ain O Salish Kendra source. Seventy-nine people were killed either in alleged crossfires or in custody of the law....    Full story...

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Dhaka siege: How long before Bangladesh becomes a failed state?

Burning Issue

Krittivas Mukherjee, Hindustan Times, New Delhi |  Jul 02, 2016 It has been a year of unusual Islamist violence in Bangladesh, with at least 18 murderous attacks on freethinkers, minority religious preachers and a much-loved English professor at the Rajshahi University. The pattern in....    Full story...

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Awami League leader’s family set up offshore companies

Corruption

David Bergman  12 July 2013, NewAge A top Awami League politician along with his family established a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, a country known as a secretive tax-free haven, New Age can reveal. In July 2006, Kazi Zafarullah, a member of the....    Full story...

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Bangladesh's controversial tribunal upholds Mir Quasem Ali's death sentence

Jamaat Islami

Image: Mir Quasem Ali Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami's chief financier, imposed for war crimes, in a major blow to the country's biggest Islamist party.   Mir Quasem Ali, a shipping and real estate tycoon, was....    Full story...

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A smear campaign going on for long in Chittagong hill tracts

Bangladesh

A smear campaign is going on for long in Chittagong hill tracts. This camapign targeted Bengalee, Bangladesh army and the very sovereignty of Bangladesh nation state. While Investigating the issues further I came across the following article in Daily star, Publsihed back in 2008. See the....    Full story...

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