enforced disappearance
Sanctions on Rab ‘worked like a tonic’
US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion “worked like a tonic”, rights activists said yesterday as the number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances dropped significantly in the last year.
An open letter to the makers of ‘Nikhoj’
Dear Reehan Rahman, My father, photojournalist and editor Shafiqul Islam Kajol, was added to the list of hundreds of Bangladeshi victims of enforced disappearance on March 10, 2020.
Ilias missing: 10 years gone, no trace yet
“We, the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance, have been leading a miserable life.
Draft OTT regulations: They'll be threat to free speech, says speakers at webinar
The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and people’s basic rights, experts said yesterday.
Bangladesh should respond to UN concerns on human rights: HRW
Human Rights Watch today urged the Bangladesh government to meaningfully respond to United Nations' concerns regarding grave allegations of torture, enforced disappearance, and extrajudicial killings in the country.
Disappearances: Rights activists demand independent probe body
Rights organisation Mother’s Call holds a discussion on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances at the National Press Club in Dhaka.
Enforced Disappearance: 40 families'painful wait lingers on
At a crowded room of the capital's Jatiya Press Club yesterday, eight-year old Adiba Islam Hridi cried softly while sitting on her mother's lap.
'Picked up' pro-AL men return
The three ruling party men, allegedly picked up by plainclothes men from Narayanganj's Rupganj, returned home yesterday.
Put public concerns at rest
On average, 16 people have become victims of enforced disappearance between 2012 and 2017, which amounts to more than one every month. It is regrettable too that in the four or five years that the afflicted families have been making their annual plea to the government through a press conference, to trace the victims out, their number has risen gradually.
The Disappeared
The statistics, the names, the stories continue to pile up, an almost “normalisation” of the crimes taking place—anyone, doing anything, might disappear. Until one day, until this time, it is one of our own.
Enforced disappearance - The burden of proof
According to several past reports published by Human Rights Watch, Privacy International, and Swedish Media, there has been a rise...