Dhaka Central Jail
No Aynabaji in real life, please
News of impersonators serving time for convicts raises alarm
Prison reform is the need of the hour
CAG audit report on Dhaka Central Jail demands appropriate response
Dhaka Central Jail: Tk 37.5cr mishandled in just one year
In fiscal 2019-20, the Dhaka Central Jail authorities forked out Tk 9.11 crore to procure rice for inmates. That rice turned out to be unfit for consumption.
Dhaka jail’s chief hangman walks out of prison today
The chief hangman of Dhaka Central Jail is set to walk free today after 32 years. The 73-year-old’s tally of 26 executions includes mobsters, militants, war criminals and assassins.
Jail Killing Day today
The nation will observe Jail Killing Day today by paying rich tributes to four national leaders and Liberation War heroes who were brutally murdered inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
Haji Salim challenges HC’s 10-year jail sentence
Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim has submitted an appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that upheld his conviction and 10 years' jail sentence in a corruption case.
Haji Salim admitted to BSMMU
Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Md Salim was sent to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) today, a day after he was sent to jail in a corruption case.
Legal notice to scrap jail trial of Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sends a legal notice to the government, requesting it to cancel the gazette notification that said the trial of Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against her will be held at old Dhaka central jail.
Dhaka jail’s under-construction gate falls apart
The main gate of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, which was under construction, falls apart leaving several persons injured.
Family meets SQ Chy, avoids media on way out
Family meets top BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for an hour and leaves without facing the media. The meeting takes place a day after the Supreme Court rejected SQ Chowdhury’s plea for review against his death penalty for war crimes committed during 1971.
Family to meet Mojaheed tomorrow
Family members of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail tomorrow.
Security strengthened at jails: IG prison
Security has been strengthened in all jails across Bangladesh after the killings of foreign nationals, the chief of prisons has said. Though there has been no formal alert issued from the government, the prisons are now under strict vigilance.
Mojaheed to file review petition: Defence
War criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement that had upheld his death penalty for killing intellectuals during the Liberation War in 1971, one of his counsels says.
JCD chief shifted to Dhaka jail
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan is shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Patuakhali.
BCL leader held for instigating fellow female leader’s suicide
Police arrest Bangladesh Chhatra League president of Government Bangla College, Mirpur in Dhaka for instigating suicide of a female BCL leader.
Lawyers to meet Mojaheed tomorrow
Five lawyers will meet convicted war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed at Dhaka central jail tomorrow morning for instructions about seeking a review to the Supreme Court verdict upholding his death penalty.
Kamaruzzzman buried
Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, who was executed at Dhaka Central Jail last night for his 1971 war crimes, is buried at his village home in Sherpur.
Al Badr organiser Kamaruzzaman executed
On a July morning in 1971, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman marched into Sohagpur, a remote hamlet, and unleashed cold-blooded savagery.
Kamaruzzaman execution likely tomorrow: Minister
After a series of preparatory activities at Dhaka jail that sent signals of move to execute war criminal Kamaruzzaman tonight, State Minister Asaduzzaman Khan hints that the Jamaat leader’s execution might take place tomorrow. His family may get chance to meet him in jail for the last time tomorrow.
