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Allegation of a young man being shot and killed and of another being shot and injured, while at custody in Gulshan police station in capital city Dhaka

Families of the victim’s alleged that, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (35), Mohammad. Aslam Sheikh (35), Mohammad Manik (29) and Mohammad Jalal (28), were arrested on the morning of 29th June, 2010, by Sub Inspector (SI) Anisur Rahman. Mizan’s family claimed that, early morning of 29th June at around 4:30 am, police personnel arrested Mizan from their residence at […]

June 29, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Disappearance of Mohammad Chowdhury Alam, Ward Councilor Number-56 of Dhaka City Corporation

Mohammad Chowdhury Alam (66), Councilor of 56 number ward of Dhaka City Corporation and a resident of 315/C Khilgaon, was abducted from in front of Metro Garden on 75, Indira road on June 25, 2010. The family alleges that he was taken away in a micro-bus, by 7/8 men who dressed in plain clothes and […]

June 25, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman taken into 12 days remand

June 8, 2010  On 07 June 2010, Mahmudur Rahman, Acting Editor of the Bengali Daily Amar Desh was placed under four days remand by two Metropolitan Magistrates in two separate cases. A three-day remand was given in the Tejgaon Police Station Case No 2(6)2010 dated 02.06.2010 and a one-day remand was granted in the Kotwali […]

June 8, 2010 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Odhikar appeals to human rights defenders around the world to demand the immediate release of Mahmudur Rahman and withdrawal of all fabricated cases against him and the journalists and staff of Daily Amar Desh

June 3, 2010 Mahmudur Rahman was produced before the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nazrul Islam at 4pm on June 2, 2010, twelve hours after his arrest. He was produced before the Court by the police of the Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station after he was handed over to them by another group of police who […]

June 3, 2010 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Death of motor mechanic Rabiul Islam Khokon, due to torture inflicted while in custody at Chatkhil Police Station under Noakhali District

Rabiul Islam Khokon (23), a Mechanic in Majjatpara village in Chatkhila, Noakhali, was taken into remand on the 12th of May, 2010 at 1.00 am in the morning. His parents Md. Shahjahan and Rawshan Akhter accused Sub-Inspector Abdul Mannan of having tortured their son in remand. Khokon was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on […]

May 13, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Mohammad Manik allegedly died in the custody of Kotwali police in Chittagong

On 11 May 2010 at around 7.00 a.m, Mohammad Manik (38), a night guard of Anjuman Residential Hotel of Reazuddin Bazar, 116 Station Road, under the Chittagong City Corporation, died in the Kotwali police station of Chittagong, while he was in custody of the police. The family alleged that Sub Inspector Yunus Mia arrested Manik […]

May 11, 2010 | Read full story | Comments are closed