Odhikar

Possibility of further crackdown at Odhikar and government’s action to gag the voice of the most vocal human rights organisation in Bangladesh

Dear friends, Odhikar’s Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan was taken to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court today at 10 o’clock in the morning and kept in the court custody lock-up till 2:00 pm.  He was not presented before the Magistrate, even after his lawyers insisted that he be taken. At 2:00 pm Adilur was taken […]

September 4, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Statement regarding human rights report for August 2013

Odhikar releases its human rights monitoring report every month based on the fact findings carried out by its local human rights defenders across the country and documentation. It has been Odhikar releases its human rights monitoring report eve doing this in an unbiased and responsible manner since its inception in 1994. HRR_Aug 2013_Odhikar (full text […]

September 1, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Press Release 30 August 2013

statement-odhikar-2013 (full text in Bangla, PDF)

August 30, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human Rights and State Oppression

Statement-HR and State Oppression-2013-eng (full text in English, PDF) Statement-HR and State Oppression-2013-bang (full text in Bangla, PDF)

August 24, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Press Release 16.08.2013

Press Release-16.08.13-Eng (full text in English, PDF) Press Releasel-16.08.13-Bang (full text in Bangla, PDF)

August 16, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Killing of Mohammad Shamim Sharkar by the police of Savar Police Station

On June 5, 2013, residents of Hemayetpur, Mohammad Shamim Sharkar (32) son of Mohammad Abul Halim Sharkar and Mosammat Jayvanu and Mohammad Saiful Islam Khan (25) son of Hazrat Ali Khan and Nasima Akhter, were arrested by police, led by assistant Sub Inspector (A.S.I) Mohammad Akidul Islam at around 7:30 in the evening for being […]

August 13, 2013 | Read full story | Comments are closed