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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

The death of farmer Sanaul Haque allegedly by BSF firing in Shibganj of Chapainawabganj district

Odhikar learned that on July 25, 2012 at around 1:50 pm that Sanaul Haque (25), son of Abdur Rashid and Mosammat Minyara Khatun of Tarapur Morolpara village at the Monkosha Union Parishad of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district, was killed by Border Security Force (BSF) firing at the Shingnagar border, where he had gone to irrigate his crop. Sanaul […]

July 31, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Ansar personnel allegedly killed three workers in Kushtia

The workers of Akij bidi factory in Hosenabad village under Doulatpur thana in Kushtia district were demanding a wage increment for a long time. On July 15, 2012 at around 12:00pm, when they again demanded a wage raise, the factory manager Mohammad Khorshed Alam, on behalf of the owner, announced that their wages will not be increased. As a […]

July 15, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Nazrul Islam was allegedly arrested and then disappeared by RAB

Mohammad Nazrul Islam (38) is the son of late Soloyman Sarkar and Zohura Begum of Jhaoil village in Kamarkhand upazilla of Shirajganj. At around 5.30 pm on June 13, 2012, Nazrul Islam was allegedly arrested and then disappeared by RAB-12 members. Nazrul Islam was working in the vegetable plot beside the rail-crossing near his house, when RAB arrested […]

June 13, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Fatema Khatun was allegedly killed in demand of dowry

Fatema Khatun Kajol (19) was the daughter of Mohammad Akram Shorder of Alipur Purbopara village of Sadar upazila of Satkhira district. On November 5, 2011, she married Mohammad Mominur Rahman Momin (26), the son of Harun Molla of Boikari village of Sadar upazila. On February 27, 2012, Momin and his family assaulted and injured her for dowry […]

February 28, 2012 | Read full story | Comments are closed