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Human rights monitoring report : January-June 2007

The human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh during the first six months of 2007, specifically describing the following areas: extrajudicial killings deaths in jail freedom of expression violence against women violence against children violence in Indo-Bangladesh border area The report closes with statistics on violations and a list of 13 […]

July 1, 2007 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Journalist Noor Ahmed tortured and forced to stay away from profession by RAB in Sylhet

Noor Ahmed, the editor of the daily newspaper Doinik Sylhet Protidin and also the General Secretary of the Sylhet Press Club, alleged that on April 7, 2007, several officers of RAB 9 arrested him and subjected him to severe torture after which he was handed over to the police following the filing of an extortion […]

April 7, 2007 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Report 2004 : investigation, research and publication of human right violation

This report, which is second of the series, is compilation of outputs of project activities and other related documents produced during the year 2004. Under this project Odhikar’s fact finding team investigated human rights abuses perpetrated by law enforcement agencies, including the abuse of specific laws, torture in remand and other forms of verbal and […]

January 1, 2005 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }