At 1.00 am on September 18, 2009, the police of the Rupsha Police Station went to the home of Orbindo Mondol Bulu (47) of the village of Doba in Rupsha, Khulna to arrest him. The family members of Bulu alleged that the police, after arresting him, had killed him by strangling and beating. Khulna-BNP leader […]
Kaiser Mahmud Bappi allegedly shot to death by RAB at Rampura in Dhaka
At around 12.30am on September 10, 2009, a team of RAB officers, led by Flight Lieutenant Raihan Asgar Khan, the Operations Officer of RAB 1, conducted a raid at the newly-built Aftab Tower, located at 323 Purba Rampura, Dhaka. It was alleged by the members of the family of Kaiser Mahmud Bappi (24), a resident […]
The police breaks the hands and legs of Abul Bashar Tuhin at the Kotwali Police Station, Sylhet
At 7.30 pm on September 1, 2009, the police of the Kotwali Police Station arrested Abul Bashar Tuhin (40) from House No. 158, Bagbari Sylhet. He lived in No. 3 Nasima House in Lauai of Dokkhin Surma, Sylhet. After being tortured in custody for the whole night, he was initially admitted to the Sylhet Osmani […]
Allegation of a shrimp merchant being shot to death at Tala, Shatkhira
At around 7.30 pm on August 18, 2009, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman Gazi (32) from the village of Shahapur, Tala was arrested by the police of the Shatkhira Police Station from the house of Advocate Shabuj at Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Road. It has been alleged by the family of the victim that the police took Lutfor […]
Allegation of a Chatra Dal leader being tortured in custody at Netrokona Model Police Station
At around 10.00 am on August 24, 2009, Morshed Habib Bhuiyan Jewel (32), President of the Atpara Unit Chatra Dal of Netrokona District, went to the Khadda Bhaban at Abdul Gani Road, Dhaka, to submit a tender related documents concerning the renovation of food warehouses. On the same day at around 11.30 am, the police of […]
BNP Leader Shipu abducted and killed in Mohammadpur, Dhaka
At around 11.00pm on June 18, 2009, Manjur Morshed Shipu (41), son of late Abul Hossain and the owner of house 24/8, Bijli Maholla, Block ‘F’ of Mohammadpur Joint Quarters, under the Mohammadpur Police Station, was abducted by 7-8 people at the gate of his rented house located on road number 1 in the Mohammadia […]
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- Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN)
- Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
- Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL)
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- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- World Organization against Torture (OMCT)