enforced disappearance
‘Handcuffs, blindfold ... it felt like a grave’
Usually, one sees the families of the victims of enforced disappearances demanding their loved ones be returned. But in a rare occurrence, the survivors came to the fore at a programme yesterday to narrate the ordeals they went through.
Enforced disappearances / Bangladesh should support UN's offer of independent commission: HRW
Bangladesh authorities should accept the UN's offer to support an independent commission of inquiry into enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch said yesterday, on the eve of today's International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2023 / Find the unadulterated truth about all alleged disappearances
No credible and independent investigation has so far been carried out into any of the alleged incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh.
US envoy's Shaheenbagh visit attempt to interfere in Bangladesh's internal affairs: Russia
Russia believes that the US ambassador's visit to Shaheenbagh to meet with the family of a supporter of an opposition political party is an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of Bangladesh.
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.
Man “picked up by Rab,” shown arrested after 17 days
A man, Nurul Afsar Hawladar, who was picked up from Uttara on September 22 allegedly by Rab, was shown arrested in Cox's Bazar yesterday (October 9, 2022).
‘Expatriate Diplomacy’ and ‘Mercenary Columnists’
Government decision to engage in expatriate diplomacy to tackle negative propaganda raises a lot of questions.
“I cannot use a phone for my safety or ride my bicycle anymore”
"I cannot use a phone for my safety, or ride my bicycle, which I have ridden for 50 years," said photojournalist Shahidul Alam at a lecture session in Dhaka today (September 3, 2022).
A family forced into never-ending distress
Four years ago, some plainclothesmen picked up Mohon Mia from his Mirpur house. He has never returned home again. His father Jamsher Ali, a trader, has long insisted he has proof that Rab-4 members took his elder son away without giving any reason.
ASK concerned over missing people including Salahuddin
Ain O Salish Kendra expresses deep concern over increasing number of missing people, alleging law enforcers have picked up at least 20 people this year but denied detaining them.
HRW urges probe into Salahuddin’s ‘disappearance’
Human Rights Watch urges Bangladeshi authorities to immediately order an independent investigation into "enforced disappearance" of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed
