Odhikar

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

Human rights monitoring report: January 2010

The January 2010 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically covering the following areas and cases: Issue of human rights violations at the border not brought up during the Prime Minister’s visit to India Bangladesh deprived of its deserved share of water; the Mujib-Indira Agreement yet to be established […]

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

Teenager killed by BSF at the Wahedpur border under Chapainababganj District

The people of Bishroshiay Charpaka village under Shibganj Thana, Chapainababganj are mourning the death of Shaymol Karmokar. Shaymol Karmokar (17) was the only barber in the village and with his death by the bullets of BSF on 27 January 2010; no one in the village cuts their hair or shaves in the salon any more. […]

January 27, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed