Abdul Mazid (25) from the village of Bhatkoi under Raninagar Upazila in Naogaon district left home at around 7.00 am on June 12, 2008 to appear before the court. However, he did not return home that day. When Mazid’s wife enquired about her husband at the Raninagar Police Station, she was told that the police […]
Clashes between police, army and agitated workers at Narshingdi
On 31 May 2008, at the bus stand that is under construction at Shalidha, Narsingdi Poursava of the district of Narsingdi, a gathering organised by the power-loom workers to demand to increase their salary and other allowances, reducing power load-shading and justice of killing one of the worker Taslima by the owner. It was complaint from the […]
Shirajul, father of a victim of manpower agents killed by police beating in Cox’s Bazar
The family of Md. Shirajul Islam (45), a resident of the village of Villager Para at Chakaria Upazila in the Cox’s Bazar district, alleged that he was killed by brutal police beating on May 14, 2008. The allegation of beating was corroborated by a witness to the incident. The police authorities also confirmed that the […]
Nurnabi of Feni was injured by police beating
A man named Nurnabi (27) from the village of Dakshmin-Purba Char Chandia (south-east Char Chandia) under the Sonagazi Upazila of Feni district alleged that he was called by a police officer of the Sonagazi Police Station at around at 5.30 pm on May 2, 2008 and injured him by beating in the police station. The […]
Akash and Tikka shot and killed by RAB at Khoksha, Kushtia
It was learned from the accounts of witnesses and the RAB that Golam Hossain Akash (35) from the village of West Bishoikhali of Jhenaidah district was arrested at around 2.00 am on June 18, 2008 by RAB-6 of Khulna and RAB 12 of Kushtia from the village of Udibari of Kushtia. On the other hand, […]
A man shot dead by police at Mirpur in Kushtia
According to the witnesses, in the afternoon on April 18, Abbas (40) was picked up from Alamdanga by the police of the Uslampur Police Camp under the Alamdanga Police Station. Abbas’s family alleged that he was shot and killed by the police from the Mirpur Police Station of Kushtia district at night on the same […]
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