On April 18, 2011 at around 1.00 am, Rekatul Islam (17) was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near the sub pillar 4 of the International pillar 4 at Gazipur border under Satkhira district. Mohammad Shahadat Hossain (25) and Mohammad Zakir Hossain (28) were injured when the BSF opened fire at them […]
Four student leaders allegedly injured in an attack by Chattra League members in Narayangonj
At around 12 noon on June 8, 2011, Mostafizur Rahman Titu, the leader of Bangladesh Awami League supported student organisation, Bangladesh Chattra League, and 20/25 associates allegedly attacked four ‘leftist’ leaders, in Narayangonj Tolaram Government College, who were distributing leaflets in support of a hartal (general strike). The hartal was being called to protest the […]
School student Shubho killed and two other children injured in Fatulla, Narayanganj
At about 8:00 pm on June 14, 2011, members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)- 10, conducted an anti-drug raid in an alley at Islamia Bazaar, Pagla Bottola area, Fatulla station, Narayanganj district. During the raid, a student of the 9th grade Shadhin Ahmed Shubho (15), son of local resident Abu Sayeed and Rahima Begum […]
Four journalists allegedly beaten while collecting information in Kumarkhali at Kushtia
After receiving allegations that low quality materials were being used by the contracting firm GM Enterprise which was given the responsibility to renovate Kuthibari , a famous house of noble laureate and Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, on June 03, 2011 Mohammad Touhidi Hasan Shiplu (26) Kushtia district correspondent of the national daily newspaper Prothom Alo, […]
Human rights monitoring report : May 2011
The July 2011 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: Extrajudicial killings continue RAB submitted an investigation report accusing Limon and family members University student disappears after being ‘abducted’ by RAB from the jail gate Home Ministry cautions the National Human Rights Commission Killings and […]
Accession to the Convention on Enforced Disappearance would strengthen the human rights protection in Bangladesh
May 26, 2011, Dhaka; A group of 35 media persons and human rights defenders urged the government to accede to the
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