It was learnt from eyewitnesses that between 11.00 am and 12.30 pm on October 19, 2008, several officers from RAB 11 arrested Afsar Uddin alias Afsu (37) and Shumon (19) residents of Noyagaon, Munshiganj from Noyagaon. The RAB officers held them in custody at the place of the incident till 4.00 pm and severely beat […]
Doctor Mizanur Rahman Tutu alias Tutul shot dead by Police at Naogaon
It was alleged that at around 4.15 am on July 27, 2008, Doctor Mizanur Rahman Tutu alias Tutul (49) was shot dead by the police at the Eidgah of Dighir Para of Kaligram of Raninagar Upazila, Naogaon. Odhikar’s fact-finding mission discovered that Tutu was the head of Rajshahi-Natore- Naogaon-Chapainawabganj region of Purbo Banglar Communist Party- […]
BDR officers Abdul Hannan and Krishnapada Pal shot and killed by BSF at Chapainawabganj
On the night of July 17, 2008, a speedboat and an engine-run boat of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) crossed the border near Roghunathpur of Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, one and a half kilometres into Bangladesh on the Padma river shared by Bangladesh and India. At around 11.45 pm, when a patrol boat of Bangladesh Rifles […]
RAB alleged to have shot and killed a Chhatra Dal leader at Barisal
It was learned from the witnesses and RAB sources that Md. Moshiul Alam Sentu (34) from west Kauniya Bagan Bari, Barisal was arrested by a team of RAB at the Nilkhet area in Dhaka on July 15, 2008. Sentu’s family alleged that he was shot and killed by RAB following his arrest. His family also […]
An Awami League leader killed by police at Mirpur, Kushtia
It has been alleged that Anwar Hossain (25), a resident of the village of Katdohochor of Mirpur in Kushtia was shot and killed by the police of Mirpur Police Station in a brick field in the village of Housepur at around 12.25 am on June 28, 2008. It was unearthed through fact-finding that at around […]
Tapan and Rikta from Jhenaidah allegedly killed by RAB in Kushtia
On June 18, 2008, in the village of Baradi, Kushtia Abdur Rashid Malitha alias Tapan alias Dada Tapan (48) from west Bishoykhali village under the Sadar Upazila of Jhenaidah district and Nasima Akhtar Rikta (18) from the village of Bepari Para under the same Upazila were shot to death by RAB. This allegation was made […]
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