Odhikar

Man allegedly shot to death by RAB in Kumarkhali of Kushtia

On September 12, 2012 Mohammad Atear Rahman (30) son of Samsuddin Molla and Tara Khatun of Baroipara village under Ambaria Union Parishad 9 of Khoksha police station in Kushtia district was shot dead by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members. Atear and his family lived as tenants in Shafi Sheikh’s house in Ataikula moholla of Ataikula police station in […]

September 12, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

College student Sumaiya Sultana Shima and her mother Aleya Akhter were given electric shocks and physically tortured in six days of confinement in police custody at Kushtia

At around 3 am on September 9, 2012, Aleya Akhter (50) and Sumaiya Sultana Shima (18), respectively the wife and daughter of late Salam Molla, resident of 1 no. Beradanga area of Rajbari pouroshobha of Rajbari district was detained without any case by the police of Khoksha Police Station of Kushtia. The police of Khoksha Police Station and […]

September 9, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

BSF allegedly kills a Bangladeshi at Nagorbhita border in Thakurgaon

The Border Security Force of India (BSF) has allegedly tortured and killed Mohammad Hajirul Islam (27), son of late Iyaz Uddin and Hajera Khatun of South Dowari village in Baliyadangi Upazila of Thakurgaon district in Bangladesh on the night of September 1, 2012. Nagorbhita border of Bangladesh on its opposite has Tingao border of Goalpukur Police Station in […]

September 1, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights monitoring report : August 2012

The August 2012 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, and deals specifically with the following areas: Political violence Police stop meetings of medical college admission candidates Torture in custody Public lynching Police submitted final report on the case filed by Limon’s mother and attack his family School teacher assaulted […]

September 1, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

AFAD’s concern on the cases of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses its concern about the recent rise of the cases of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. In a single district of Munshigonj, 8 bodies have been found in a period of one week. Many families are claiming that their relatives were disappeared after members of the law enforcing agencies […]

August 30, 2012 | Read full story | Comments { 1 }

Statement by Odhikar on the International Day of the Disappeared

On the International Day of the Disappeared, the human rights organization Odhikar notes

August 30, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed