Odhikar

Human rights monitoring report : February 2010

The February 2010 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: Clashes between Bangali settlers and members of the ethnic minority communities at Rangamati and Khagrachori; Political violence continues: Two students killed during clashes at Dhaka and Rajshahi Universities; BDR mutiny trials begin at Panchagar, Thakurgaon and Dhaka. […]

March 1, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human Rights Defenders Conference : Odhikar stressed for establishing a nationwide HR Defenders Network to effectively safeguard human rights

Odhikar, with the support of the May 18 Memorial Foundation, organised a two-day Human Rights Defenders Conference on February 19

February 20, 2010 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Odhikar’s anti-torture project cancelled again

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) issued an urgent alert to receive the information that the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Bangladesh government released its decision to cancel Odhikar’s anti-torture project for the second time. Odhikar project cancelled-Urgent appeal-2010 (full text in English, PDF)

February 20, 2010 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Open letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh : concern following the denial of extension of a project led by Odhikar

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), wishes to express its deepest concern regarding the recent decision of the Bangladeshi authorities to cancel, for the second consecutive time, a human rights project led by the […]

February 18, 2010 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

A Bangladeshi rickshaw van puller was killed by the BSF at the Tentulia Kazipara border under Panchagar District

Farid Hossain (28), a rickshaw van puller, lived in the village of Sharialjot under Tentulia Upazila in Panchagar District. He had a wife, two children, mother, father and a grandfather. He also had one brother. He had been asked by a local resident Zahir, a cattle trader, to cross the Indian border and fetch cattle […]

February 6, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Leader of the landless, S M Saifullah Lashkar allegedly killed by the police at Satkhira

On December 5, 2009, it has been alleged by the family members of the deceased that S M Saifullah Lashkar (65), resident of the village of Lashkarpara of Satkhira was murdered in a pre-planned manner by the Town Sub-Inspector (TSI) Md. Nazrul Islam of the Katiya Police Line and Shamsul Alam Sarkar, the Assistant Police […]

February 5, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed