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BSF Beat a Bangladeshi Citizen to Death and Raped His Wife

At 2.00 am on April 23, 2009, Rabindranath Mondol (45) and his wife Kollani Rani Mondol (38) from the village of Bolabari, of Ashashuni, Shatkhira were arrested by BSF Officers from India’s Ghojadanga Camp as they were returning to Shatkhira from India along Main Pillar Number 4. The BSF Officers beat Rabindranath to death and […]

June 23, 2009 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights monitoring report : January-March 2009

The January-March 2010 three-monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: Try Pilkhana killings in an open court under existing laws Deaths of BDR members in custody Interference in freedom of thought and expression hinders Constitutional guarantees Government imposed censorship on websites Imposition of strict conditions […]

April 1, 2009 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights monitoring report : January 2009

The January 2009 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas:  Post Parliament election violence continues Upazila election violence Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Hearing at UNHRC Intelligence agencies Extrajudicial killings India-Bangladesh border violence Repression on ethnic minority communities Freedom of expression Rape Dowry related violence Acid […]

February 1, 2009 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights report 2008 : Odhikar report on Bangladesh

The Human Rights Report 2008 is one of the reports that Odhikar brings out at the beginning of a new year, consolidating and compiling its various reports published over the preceding year. Odhikar focuses on host of rights guaranteed under international human rights instruments and those protected by the Constitution of Bangladesh. It monitors violations of the right to […]

January 15, 2009 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Human rights monitoring report : November 2008

The November 2008 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: Immediately lift the State of Emergency Human rights must be in party manifesto Border killings Extrajudicial killings Freedom of expression Rape Dowry related violence Acid violence Death in jail The report closes with statistics on […]

December 1, 2008 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Human rights monitoring report : October 2008

The October 2008 monthly human rights monitoring report describes the human rights situation in Bangladesh, specifically describing the following areas: the State of emergency and elections extrajudicial killings freedom of expression deaths in jail and custody dowry related violence acid violence India-Bangladesh border violence The report closes with statistics on violations and a list of […]

November 1, 2008 | Read full story | Comments are closed