Category: Law
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Why do workplaces become torture cells for minor domestic workers?
Former national cricketer Shahadat Hossain Razib and his wife Jasmine Jahan were arrested in 2015 on charges of torturing their minor house help named Happy. They were tried in court but were discharged due to a lack of evidence. It was well-known that some influential quarters had influenced the police to make it happen. Another…
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Bangladesh: Single verdict in house help torture cases
Perpetrators enjoy impunity, rarely sued or arrestedVictims are mostly girls below 18 years of ageCases filed in less than half of incidents340 killed, 17 workers committed suicide since 2011286 incidents of deaths and torture from 2013 to March 2018 Eleven-year-old Aduri got justice for the inhuman torture she had to endure at the house of…
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Ill-treatment of house helps: A culture of abuse swept under the rug
In an educated, civilized society, we expect every employer and their family members to treat their house help as respectable people because of their hard work — from cleaning to cooking to raising kids, they perform their duties like machines. In addition to assigning tasks based on their abilities, ensuring timely payment of their wages,…
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The endangered Asian Elephants
According to IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) reported in August 2021, there are now only about 48,000-50,000 Asian Elephants found in 13 range states. More than 60% of the wild population exists in India alone. Only four other countries – Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka – have more than 2,000 wild elephants.…
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How dangerous are the Afghan returnee militants of Huji-B?
Bangladesh has been talking about Islamist militancy and extremism, or an armed struggle to establish a Shariah-based state, since early 1999. Members of the Bangladesh branch of the Pakistani militant outfit Harkatul Jihad al-Islami or HuJI attacked poet Shamsur Rahman with the intention of killing him on January 18 of that year. After that, in…
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1971 Genocide: Ukhiya Buddhists fled to Arakan to save their lives
After the Pakistani military launched genocide in East Pakistan on March 25, 1971, to suppress the Bengali resistance for an independent Bangladesh, other Bengalis linked to Islamist parties became their supporters and formed auxiliary forces, like the Peace Committee, Razakar, al-Badr, al-Shams, and Mujahid Bahini, across the country. The collaborators were mainly tasked with assisting…
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Bangladesh anti-quota movement: Dangers of open social media in the third world
When some top media outlets and their sympathizers in the opposition, civil society and young generation work together against the establishment, it may not take too long to unseat a government. Itâs not surprising that a harsher reaction from the executive and legislative bodies of the State is imminent. The incumbents would try their best…
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Strict actions are needed for effective reforms
This op-ed was published on March 15, 2024. As Bangladesh continues to grapple with longstanding crises such as reserve management, corruption, and law enforcement, it’s evident that meaningful reforms are needed to overcome this uncomfortable situation and ease uneasiness. And such reforms demand resolute leadership. The aftermath of the recent elections, which saw the incumbent…
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Bangladeshâs drug problem is deep-rooted, unstoppable
Over the past four decades, Bangladesh has been alarmed by the rise of new synthetic drugs, the number of drug addicts among adolescents and young women, drug smuggling, drug-related crimes, substandard rehabilitation centres, and lax monitoring and enforcement of laws. During this period, successive governments have formulated new laws and modernized some age-old laws, increased…
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JUNE 22, 1971: US was nonchalant when Syed Nazrul sought recognition
The Nixon administration decided to keep mum when it received the first formal request for US recognition of Bangladesh in June 1971 and announced support for a unified Pakistan. Dated “Mujibnagar”, April 24, the letter requested President Richard Nixon’s immediate US recognition of the “sovereign independent People’s Republic of Bangladesh” and establishing diplomatic relations with…
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May 10, 1971: Pakistani military ruler Yahya invites Awami League to form government
In early May during the Liberation War, Pakistan President General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was pondering the transfer of political power without holding fresh elections. He was in favour of the Awami League forming the nucleus of the government in East Pakistan as it swept a landslide victory in the December 1970 elections, except for…
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1952 Language Movement Series: Not 5, dozens were killed on February 21-22
Bangalees started getting united to thwart possible attempts to undermine Bengali in July 1947, a month before the establishment of Pakistan and India based on religion, as they sensed the political leadership in West Pakistan would prioritize Urdu. They were right. The initiatives, taken by the West Pakistani rulers and supported by some Bangalee Muslim…
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THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: How a US envoy exposed genocide by Pakistan Army
While the Nixon-Kissinger administration continued supporting military strongman General AM Yahya Khan, who launched a crackdown to “maintain the integrity of Pakistan,” a diplomat in Dhaka urged the US government to express shock, describing the atrocities in a telegram on March 27, 1971. âSelective Genocideâ was the title of the telegram sent by Consul General…
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Negligence of the state to be blamed for murder of another secular activist in Bangladesh
He is the third secular writer to have been killed in less than three months! It was evident; even more to follow — thanks to the reluctance of the so-called progressive government! The head of state as well as her parrots are eliminating the militants during their speeches; that’s all. No effective operation is seen…
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Newborn dies as Apex Footwear supervisor neglects worker’s plea
Apex Footwear Limited also known as Apex Adelchi is a renowned company in Bangladesh. And like other conglomerates enjoy impunity even for not meeting compliance at the factory at Harinhati of Gazipur’s Kaliakoir. No one in the government or media knew what is happening inside the factory until Sunday when the death of a newborn…
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Bangladesh Police exposes its real face during protests against sexual assaults
An all-out student strike has been announced for Tuesday, May 12, over the police torture on protesters Sunday. Police detain six while injure 30 activists who joined a demonstration in front of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police headquarters this noon! To the police, it was an offence to demand arrest of the culprits who sexually assaulted…
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Chhtra League: Rejected or rewarded?
The ruling party’s student wing has gone mad, thanks to the party chief, Sheikh Hasina — the prime minister, who prefers to keep her violent youths on the streets as striking force! The problem is that two other violent parties — BNP and Jamaat — think and act the same way! Two persons among those…
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Nepal Earthquake rings alarm bell for many in Bangladesh
In modern days, people are so callous that they don’t tend to take precautionary measures but show enthusiasm to cover the loss incurred — be it natural disaster or those man-made ones. Here earthquake is the deadliest disaster that strike without a warning, anytime! History of earthquakes says they can come anytime and may revisit…
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What did Oyasiqur write that he’d be killed?
A war crimes trial campaigner, he was critical of radical Islamists in jamaat and militant organisations, he protested delay in Avijit Roy murder case, corruption of the government, violation of human rights of the indigenous people and religious minorities. But the govt neither killed him nor sued him for hurting religious sentiment. The killers including…
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One of the rapists of February 21 sex assaults at DU identified
Hats off to the Bangladesh Facebook users; you are doing something great! Since February 21, 2015, I had been frustrated to see no development in the sexual assaults of at least three girls on the Amar Ekushey Book Fair premises at Suhrawardy Udyan gate on Dhaka University campus. Only the Dhaka Tribune published photos of the rapists…
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WikiLeaks: Hasina wanted to improve image with US in 1991
Soon after the BNP came to power on March 20, 1991, then opposition leader in parliament Sheikh Hasina alleged that the government had been turning authoritarian. She was also against the BNP’s constitution amendment proposals, especially shackling the president. âShe said that the BNP proposal contains a provision that the president is ‘bound’ to dissolve…
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RAB: What are you actually?
Paramilitary force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was formed in March 2004 with the commitment to root out terrorism and commenced operations on April 14 the same year when the BNP-Jamaat-led four-party alliance was in power. Equipped with sophisticated arms, advanced technological support and a trained dog squad, RAB personnel were trained on interrogation by the…
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