The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Pabna on Monday sent five youths, arrested in a case of killing a 7-year-old girl after rape on April 14 in a village under Chatmohar upazila in the district, to jail...
The police arrested the prime suspect in connection with the rape of a housewife at Nangalkot in Cumilla on Saturday...
Students from different national minority communities in Khagrachari on Saturday demanded justice for a 22-year-old Marma girl, who was allegedly raped at Khawkhali upazila in Rangamati several times since March 25.
A Dhaka court on Thursday convicted and sentenced Md Nasir, 25, to 10-year imprisonment in a case lodged for raping a six-year-old girl in the south Munshihati area of suburban Kamrangirchar in 2021....
The police recovered the body of a seven-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered with her face burned in a Natore village on Tuesday morning.聽聽
The police on Sunday pressed a charge sheet in the case of the death of an eight-year-old Magura girl after rape to the Magura Chief Judicial Magistrate Court against the husband of the victim鈥檚 sister and the sister鈥檚 three in-laws.
The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.
A 28-year-old woman was stabbed allegedly by a man after his failed attempt to rape her in Natore鈥檚 Gurudaspur upazila on Thursday.
Police have arrested two men in connection with the gang rape and videotaping of a woman in Bagerhat...
At least three incidents of rape had come to light since Wednesday following filing of police cases in Kushtia, Gazipur and Noakhali with victims aged six, eight and 12.
The acting chairman of Badarpur union in Patuakhali Sadar upazila, Babul Howlader, has been accused of orchestrating an arson attack on the house of a woman who had filed an attempted rape case against him....
Police on Tuesday night detained one grocery shop owner allegedly for attempting to rape a five-year-old child at Gazaria in Munshiganj district...
Speakers, including academics, rights activists, labour leaders and cultural activists on Saturday demanded the government take effective steps to ensure security of women and children, trial for rape and withdrawal of a case filed against left student leaders...
At least three incidents of rape came to light since Friday in Dhaka and Cumilla with one of the victims aged as young as four.
ON MARCH 12, 2006, five United States soldiers from the 101st airborne division drank whiskey, plotted a massacre and descended on the home of聽Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. They shot her father, mother and聽6-year-old sister聽execution-style. Then, as her baby sister鈥檚 body cooled on the floor, they took turns raping Abeer. When they were done...
Police arrested two people in connection with their suspected involvement in the gang-rape of an SSC examinee in Chandina upazila of Cumilla district on Friday...
The interim government鈥檚 advisory council on Thursday approved amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, introducing key changes, including the establishment of tribunal to speed up judicial and...
At least six more rape incidents came to light on Thursday, as three adolescent girls at Mugda and two children at Khilgaon in the capital Dhaka were allegedly raped amid a rise in violence against women and children in the country in recent weeks.
The Rape Law Reform Coalition, a combine of 17 legal and rights organisations, on Wednesday suggested that amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000 should introduce a broader legal definition of rape to include all individuals to curb incidents of rape and violence against women...
One of the accused in a case over rape of a female journalist at a construction site at Barontek 鈥楪reen City鈥� area in the capital鈥檚 Pallabi, made a confessional statement regarding the rape incident before a Dhaka court on Wednesday...
A court in Dhaka on Wednesday convicted and sentenced one Jahidul Islam, 30, to death for raping his seven-year-old student in the city鈥檚 Banashree area in 2021.
An angry mob severely beat a teenager following an allegation of rape in the capital鈥檚 Khilkhet area while police were taking him into their custody Tuesday night...
A man was arrested in Chuadanga on charges of attempting rape on his adolescent daughter and another man was held in Kurigram on charges of raping his sister-in-law on Monday...
A female journalist and a girl were allegedly raped in Dhaka and Rajshahi between Monday and Tuesday.
Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Monday night strongly condemned and protested at police attack on anti-rape protesters and case against them...
A 40-year-old man has been arrested in a Chuadanga village following allegation of attempting to rape his 14-year-old daughter...
Protests against rape and violence against women and children continued for the 11th consecutive day on Monday, calling for swift trial and people鈥檚 unity to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
The interim government on Monday approved in principle a draft bill to amend the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000, incorporating necessary changes, including the introduction of a tribunal to deal with child rape cases.
At least five new incidents of rape came to light since Sunday following the filing of police cases in Jashore, Lalmonirhat, Sirajganj, Cumilla and Narsingdi with the victims aged as young as five...
THE recent event in Narayanganj, in which a 20-year-old man was allegedly raped and a sodomy charge was filed instead, demonstrates a fundamental weakness in Bangladesh鈥檚 legal structure. The country鈥檚 rape laws, as specified in Section 375 of the Penal Code of 1860, only recognise rape as an act committed by a man against a woman, effectively removing male...