Category: Human Rights
In a joint statement, as many as 109 domestic and foreign protesting citizens, including freedom fighters, journalists, writers, artists, literary teachers, lawyers, and human rights activists, have demanded a judicial investigation and legal action against…
Retired military official and interim government Adviser Brigadier (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain has again raised the issue of 7.62-grade arms and sniper rifles being used during the anti-government movement last year. At a program of…
Retired Brigadier General Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, the son of top war criminal and former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam, is working to establish the Islamic Revolutionary Army (IRA) by destroying the Bangladesh Army and the Directorate…
In another example of weaponising the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to silence its critics, the interim government’s detectives arrested Begum Rokeya University’s former vice-chancellor and political analyst, Lt Col Professor Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, on Thursday.…
Private TV channel Banglavision has created a stir by exposing the devilish father of mob leader-turned-adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, who has been at the centre of controversies for widespread corruption but is enjoying impunity. Since taking…
Dangerous militant leaders linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) made history on Friday by chanting slogans boasting their role in spreading jihad after the Juma prayers in Dhaka’s Paltan area. They brought out…
Challenging the claim of 1,400 people being killed by the police during the anti-government protests in July-August last year, Awami League President and five-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Office of the High…
The Jamaat-controlled International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) has received the five formal charges pressed against former prime minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, her home minister and the police chief for mass killings of the…
Members of the cultural organization Udichi were barred from holding a national anthem singing event and beaten up in Bogra by the jihadists of Islami Chhatra Shibir and Inqilab Moncho on Wednesday. Independent TV carried…
The ongoing religious tensions in Kashmir, West Bengal and Seven Sisters are provoked by Bangladeshi Islamists, who are part of the Jamaat-controlled Yunus-led interim government. Several advisers, leaders of Nagorik Party, Jamaat, Hefazat, Khelafat Majlish…
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has said that the attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus, following the August 5 changeover were politically, not religiously, motivated. During a meeting with US Senator Gary Peters on March…
The article discusses reported cases of madrasa rapes in Bangladesh, focusing on the abuse of both boys and girls by religious figures. I’ll analyze this in the context of some common questions: What do these…
The ideological roots of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Assembly of Mujahideen) are deeply embedded in Salafi-Jihadist thought, influenced by global movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, as well as local Islamist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami…
Under international law and the United Nations mandate, Volker Türk, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, does not have the authority to unilaterally threaten or warn the Bangladesh Army about their participation in UN…
Apart from physical harm to the minority community people of Bangladesh, hundreds of houses, business establishments and religious sites have come under attack, vandalism and looting since the August 5 changeover. On the other hand,…
Starting from mid-February till January 10, 1972, this brief timeline mentions every important event of the Bangalee’s struggle for independence and efforts to thwart it through genocide by Pakistan, its allies, and local collaborators, like…
In 1971, the West Pakistani rulers launched an offensive in East Pakistan to subdue the Awami League and its supporters, as well as Hindus. Ethnic (Hindu) cleansing, forced pregnancy of Hindu women, and deliberate killing…
I’m astonished at what the deposed Awami League government had in mind as it left the last legal battle of convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam Azhar pending for five years and let Jamaat-e-Islami claim…
Persistent violence against law enforcement and the judiciary by a specific group of people in Bangladesh is considered a grave crime, as it implies a concerted attack on the state machinery to change the system.…
The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus released Jasimuddin Rahmani, the spiritual leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam, dozens of jihadists and notorious terrorists after coming to power. Many other…
Now that the Trump administration is taking extensive actions to uncover the Democrat’s conspiracy behind the Russia-Ukraine war, people are starting to believe that the disinformation campaign against Vladimir Putin was a conspiracy. Putin was…
Some pro-Pakistan army officers of the Bangladesh Army, unable to cope with their defeat in the Liberation War, carried out a brutal massacre at Dhanmondi No. 32 on August 15, 1975, resulting in the death…
Five days have passed since the OHCHR released the full report on the July-August riots in Bangladesh, yet no media outlet dared publishing any analytical news on it even though the discrepancies are clear. It…
Bangladesh’s press freedom has again been criticized by international observers due to Yunus government’s suppression and intimidation by its followers. According to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a number of journalists and media outlets came…
As days are passing by, radical Islamists and extremist elements have gained more strength in Bangladesh since the August 5 changeover through mob violence, rumours–thanks to the US-sponsored and army-backed interim government’s patronization and silence…
Ever since the OHCHR released its full (but incomplete and one-sided) report on Wednesday, the Bangladesh interim government has highlighted the key facts on social media from official accounts and also through the state-run news…
Being under severe criticism for gross human rights violations, autocracy, and unlawful activities, the interim government led by US puppet Prof Muhammad Yunus has staged a poor drama to describe what they call aynaghor or…
রবিবার সারাদিন দেশের সবচেয়ে আলোচিত ঘটনা ছিল শাহবাগ এলাকায় এবতেদায়ী মাদ্রাসার শিক্ষক ও শিক্ষিকাদের উপর পুলিশ কর্তৃক অমানবিক লাঠিচার্জ, জলকামান ও টিয়ারগ্যাস। এত নির্যাতনের পরেও মাদ্রাসা শিক্ষকরা শাহবাগে তাদের অবস্থান জারি রাখেন। সোমবার ভোর ৪টায়…
অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন সরকার দিনকে দিন অসহিষ্ণু হয়ে উঠছে। ব্যক্তি বা গোষ্ঠী বা সংগঠন থেকে সরকারের কাছে দাবী জানালে সেটিকে গুরুত্ব সহকারে না দেখে সরকার বিরোধী বা ফ্যাসিবাদের দোসর ট্যাগ দেয়া এবং পুলিশ বা সরকার সমর্থক সংগঠনের…
শনিবার রাতে হঠাৎ গা ঝাড়া দিয়ে ক্ষোভ ঝাড়লেন বাংলাদেশের শীর্ষস্থানীয় নায়িকা পরী মনি। ফেসবুকে এক পোস্টে তিনি ধর্মীয় উগ্রবাদের সমস্যা নিয়ে ছোট একটা স্ট্যাটাস দিয়েছেন। বলেছেন তার আগে মেহজাবীন ও পরশীও নানা বিপদে পড়েছেন। তার…