extrajudicial killings
Halt killings of suspects in anti-drug drive
Condemning the alleged extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in Bangladesh, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, yesterday called for an immediate halt to...
Govt took limited steps to prosecute rights abuses
Bangladesh government took limited measures to investigate and prosecute cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced
Extrajudicial killings
A report in this newspaper yesterday has revealed that in the last 13 years, 1900 people have been victims of extrajudicial killings, of whom 800 died in police custody.
What goes around comes around
Doesn't the AL think that, in case of a democratic change of power, the same technique will be used against the AL men?
HRW calls for free probe, prosecution
Security forces in Bangladesh are accused of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and secret detentions, including that of
Forestalling extrajudicial killings
A democratic polity venturing to maintain order by repression and criminality is actually creating ultimate disorder because in so doing it creates a link between social order and atrocities.
BNP demands judicial probe into ‘extrajudicial killings’
BNP demands judicial enquiry into the all extrajudicial killings including the death of a prime suspect in a case filed for attempting to murder a Madaripur teacher.
‘JMB man’ among 3 killed in Gaibandha, Dhaka ‘shootouts’
An alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and two suspected hijackers have been killed in separate "gunfights" with law enforcers in...
Bangladesh failed at times to control security forces: US
The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took 'limited measures' to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country...
What about the other victims?
At last there is acknowledgement from the government party members that innocent people do get killed in “crossfire”. One wishes it had come sooner.
The lawmaker and the lawless
It was indeed refreshing and encouraging to find lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh speaking out on extrajudicial killings.