Category: Human Rights
By Probir Kumar Sarker It was the evening of May 13, 1974. Major (later sacked) Syed Farooq Rahman of the first Bengal Lancers and second-in-command of the armored corps met with a senior US embassy…
দীর্ঘ আইনি জটিলতা কাটিয়ে ২০২৪ সালের জুনে মুক্তি পাওয়া সাংবাদিক ও উইকিলিকসের প্রতিষ্ঠাতা জুলিয়ান অ্যাসাঞ্জ আবার সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যমে সক্রিয় হয়েছেন। বৃহস্পতিবার রাতে সাদা দাড়ি-গোঁফের অ্যাসাঞ্জের একটি ছবি উইকিলিকসের এক্স (সাবেক টুইটার) হ্যান্ডেল থেকে প্রকাশ করা…
বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর রাজনীতি প্রসঙ্গে সহকারী সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল ব্যারিস্টার আবদুর রাজ্জাক মার্কিন কর্মকর্তাদের জানিয়েছিলেন, জামায়াতের লক্ষ্য পরবর্তী জাতীয় নির্বাচনে জয়লাভ করা কিংবা সংসদে আসনসংখ্যা বাড়ানোর মতো স্বল্পমেয়াদি রাজনৈতিক সাফল্য নয়। দলটির প্রকৃত লক্ষ্য বাংলাদেশকে একটি…
Former Kathmandu mayor Balen Shah threatened to set ablaze the Singha Durbar—the Nepali prime minister’s office—after the police stopped a car of the municipality for questioning for operating on a holiday on September 2, 2023.…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has issued a strong condemnation of ongoing custodial deaths and extrajudicial killings targeting individuals affiliated with the Bangladesh Awami League since the fall of the former government in…
A couple of months into the inception of his “second revolution,” prior to his assassination on August 15, 1975, President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was working tirelessly to implement his philosophy for combating corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude,…
The United Nations (UN) has failed to act to ensure justice for violence since the regime change in Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, and instead it sided with the interim regime to allow impunity for…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has demanded urgent government action to halt a surge in communal violence against religious and ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, citing over 3,000 documented attacks since August 2024. In…
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she did not allow the US to set up a base in Bangladesh to uphold the country’s sovereignty amid geopolitical tensions, like the Iran war. “Today, just…
In a powerful display of unity, leaders from Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minority communities gathered at the National Press Club this morning to protest the wave of communal violence that has persisted in the month…
The inclusion of names of convicted war criminals in the condolence motion and the disrespect for the national anthem during the inaugural session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad on March 12 have provoked widespread outrage…
Religious minority groups in Bangladesh are set to hold nationwide human chains and protest marches on Friday, March 13, in a unified stand against a surge in communal violence that has left communities gripped by…
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), established in 2010 under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973, was originally intended to prosecute local collaborators of the Pakistani army for atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War.…
At fifteen, Shanto Kumar Saha should have been navigating the mundane anxieties of the classroom or the carefree competition of a cricket match. Instead, he spent his final moments sprinting through the darkness of a…
The family lawyer of Tofazzal Hossain, the mentally unstable youth who was lynched at Dhaka University’s Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall in September 2024, has accused the university administration of deliberately prolonging the trial process to…
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) continues to hear high-profile cases involving alleged enforced disappearances under the former Awami League (AL) government, but defense arguments and survivor reappearances have raised serious doubts about whether these qualify…
An investigative report by Ekattor TV has exposed misuse of authority by Adilur Rahman Khan, a former adviser in the Yunus-led interim government, who is accused of forcibly constructing a private access road to his…
In his latest video, senior journalist Masood Kamal offered a sharp analysis of Nepal’s freshly concluded parliamentary elections, contrasting them with Bangladesh’s recent political transitions. Highlighting the success of Nepal’s youth-led movement in steering a…
Pakistan loyalist, greedy and treacherous Ziaur Rahman captured power by assassinating the founding father of Bangladesh and then indemnified the killers. He became the first military dictator of independent Bangladesh, killing thousands of armed forces…
The alarming rise in violence against women and children in Bangladesh persists even after the change in government, with no signs of abatement—and in many cases, an apparent increase—according to human rights organizations and experts.…
President Mohammed Shahabuddin sparked widespread discussion and went viral on social media after concluding his speech at a government event with the slogan “Bangladesh Zindabad,” a trademark of the BNP. The remark, delivered on the…
A leading human rights organization has issued a stark warning about deepening lawlessness, mobocracy, and impunity for armed terrorists, militants, extortionists and rapists in Bangladesh, even after the February 12 national elections that brought the…
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken a Bangladeshi named Zobaidul Amin from Malaysia to the United States after arresting him on various charges, including running an international child sexual abuse ring. FBI…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has issued an urgent press release calling on the Bangladeshi government to launch a comprehensive crackdown on religious extremists and militants, warning that their growing influence threatens national…
In early 2013, Bangladesh witnessed widespread violence orchestrated by Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, in response to the International Crimes Tribunal’s proceedings against their leaders for 1971 war crimes. The unrest intensified…
In a gut-wrenching betrayal of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle and the blood of countless martyrs, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court—led by Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury—has shamelessly acquitted Khan Akram Hossain, a notorious Razakar…
In the wake of widespread unrest and violence during the July-August 2024 protests, which claimed the lives of at least 44 police officers in targeted attacks and mob violence, the appointment of a new Inspector…
In her latest impassioned address from exile—delivered as Bangladesh grapples with the aftermath of the February 12 parliamentary elections—former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unleashed a scathing indictment of the current political order. Speaking with…
Recent developments have reignited fierce debate: as investigations into police killings during the protests gain momentum under the current BNP-led government, a wave of admissions, viral videos, and defensive statements from former student coordinators and…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has issued an urgent call for the United Nations to launch an official, independent investigation into every reported death during the July-August 2024 student-led protests in Bangladesh and…