Odhikar

Mohammad Rasel Ahmed Bhutto was allegedly shot dead by RAB 10

On March 11, 2011 at around 12.30 am, Mohammad Rasel Ahmed Bhutto, son of late Nasiruddin Ahmed Nesar, resident of 45/2 Proshanno Poddar Lane, under Kotwali Police Station, was allegedly shot dead by members of the Lalbagh Camp of the Crime Prevention Company (CPC)-3 of RAB-10. The family of Rasel informed Odhikar that Rasel, a 34-year old shopkeeper, […]

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International Women’s Day and violence against women in Bangladesh

8 March is International Women’s day. Though a hundred years have passed since the declaration of women’s day and 39 years have passed since the independence of Bangladesh, the condition of women in Bangladesh leaves much space for improvement. Violence against women is prevalent in this country especially against women who come from the impoverished […]

March 7, 2011 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Mohammad Rahmat Ullah, student of Dhaka University, was allegedly tortured by police

At around 12.00 pm, on March 6, 2011, Mohammad Rahmat Ullah (20), a First Year student of the Islamic Studies Department, University of Dhaka, was arrested by the police forces of Shahabag Police Station, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, after a large protest rally brought out by students of Dhaka University. The family of Rahmat Ullah alleged that after being […]

March 6, 2011 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights monitoring report : February 2011

The February 2011 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: the Prime Minister’s statement and following extra-judicial killings the whereabouts of a shopkeeper, picked up by RAB, remain unknown the demand for withdrawal of cases against people who demonstrated at Arial Beel arrests under Anti […]

March 1, 2011 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Teenage girl Felani killed by the BSF firing at Anantapur border under Kurigram district

South Ramkhana is a village at the Bangladesh border under Naggeshwari Upazila of the Bangladesh-India border district of Kurigram. Most of the occupants of this impoverished village are either farmers or make a living by agriculture. Due to poverty and a very poor and difficult communication system, most children of this locality cannot go to […]

March 1, 2011 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Odhikar’s concern about Anti-Terrorism Act 2009

February 23, 2011 24 February 2011 marks the second anniversary of the enactment of Anti-terrorism Act. Odhikar would like to express and reiterate its grave concern on the Act that was passed in the very first session of the current Parliament on February 24, 2009. Earlier, on February 19, 2009, the Government, at a Cabinet […]

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