Injustice was considered as justice in past years: new CJ聽
Newly appointed chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Monday said that in the past years repression descended upon people instead of justice delivered to them.
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Chief Justice pays homage to martyrs by placing wreaths
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed paid tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War, Language Movement and recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement by placing wreaths on Monday morning...
HC to resume proceedings on limited scale today聽
The High Court will resume its proceedings on limited scale from Monday, one week after the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, while High Court Judge Syed Refaat Ahmed was...
Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed takes oath as CJ
Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed took oath of his office on Sunday...
Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign
High Court Division鈥檚 justice Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed as chief justice of Bangladesh on Saturday following the resignation of chief justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the Appellate Division amid student protests and allegations of an attempted judicial coup...
CJ Obaidul Hassan has resigned, Asif Nazrul says
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has submitted his resignation letter to the law ministry, confirmed law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on his verified Facebook account on Saturday.
Protesters throng SC, demand resignation of CJ, AD judges
Several hundred protesters, including students and lawyers, gathered on the Supreme Court premises and demanded the resignation of the chief justice and the judges of the Appellate Division on Saturday.
Students demand resignation of CJ, other AD justices
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on early Thursday demanded resignation of the chief justice and other Appellate Division justices by the morning to eliminate fascism from the country鈥檚 judiciary system...
Disappearance perpetrators must be brought to justice
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...
Justice, legal accountability needed for July massacre
GRAVE violations of rights witnessed during the student movement for reforms in quota for public service leading to the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League should be addressed with a credible investigation by holding all perpetrators to justice. When the now-deposed prime minister of the Awami League government...
Residences of PM, CJ among establishments vandalized across Bangladesh
Agitating people on Monday vandalised and set fire to different establishments, including official residences of the prime minister and chief justice, soon after Sheikh Hasina...
Cultural activists express solidarity with one-point demand of students
Cultural activists on Saturday expressed solidarity with students鈥� one-point demand and demanded justice for those killed in July protests in Bangladesh.
Crisis must be addressed through meaningful dialogue: BracU
Expressing their heartfelt solidarity with the students, their families, and all those affected by the tragic events, the faculty members of Brac University said that the present crisis must be addressed through meaningful dialogue, followed by effective action to restore stability and justice...
March for Justice faces obstruction from law enforcers
Students and teachers of different universities are participating in processions across the country demanding justice for wholesale arrests, attacks, cases, enforced disappearances and killings of students and ordinary people, despite facing obstruction from law enforcers.
ICJ ruling on Israeli settlements
THE International Court of Justice has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Its latest advisory opinion, sought by the UN General Assembly early last year, was unremarkably conventional though nonetheless affirming: a finding that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem...
US defends law forcing sale of TikTok app
TikTok鈥檚 collection of user data makes it a national security threat, the US Justice Department said Friday in response to a civil suit by the Chinese-owned firm aimed at preventing the forced sale of the app...
Everyone involved in recent violence to be brought to justice: Arafat
The state minister for information, Mohammad A Arafat, said on Wednesday that everyone involved in recent violence would be brought to justice following a thorough investigation by the judicial inquiry commission...
CJ calls for lawyers鈥� advice to remove corruption
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan on Monday urged the lawyers to file their written suggestions to materialise his long-term judicial plans, including reducing case backlog and...
Justin Bieber heads wedding gala thrown by India鈥檚 business tycoon
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber entertained some of India's biggest celebrities in the latest instalment of months-long wedding celebrations thrown for the son of Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani.
Rights organisations call on govt to end torture, impunity
Different international and local rights organisations on Wednesday observed the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture with a call to Bangladesh government to comply with its obligations to uphold the absolute prohibition of torture and other ill treatment, end impunity and ensure access to justice for victims...
Rudra鈥檚 literary works embody love, rebellion, social justice: discussion
Speakers, including lyricists and academicians, said that the literary works of poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah embodied love, rebellion and social justice...
Justice Hasan Foez Siddique new DG of JATI
The government on Sunday appointed former chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique as new director general of the Judicial Administration Training Institute...
Judiciary protects people鈥檚 fundamental rights, interest: CJ
Chief justice Obaidul Hassan, at an international conference in Dhaka on Saturday, said that the judiciary ensured the continued protection of people鈥檚...
7th death anniv of former CJ Latifur Rahman today
Today is the seventh death anniversary of former chief justice and former caretaker government chief adviser Latifur Rahman...
JICA launches project to enhance access to justice
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has rolled out its three-year-long 鈥榙evelopment of mediation and civil litigation practices for enhancement of access to justice鈥� project in Bangladesh, with an aim to establish a more accessible and efficient justice system in the country...
Israel鈥檚 backhanded apology was no apology at all
ON MAY 27, Israel appeared to 鈥榓pologise鈥� for the deaths of 45 Palestinians resulting from its bombing raid on a 鈥榟umanitarian zone鈥� in Rafah. By any measure, it was a backhanded apology that conveyed more insult than atonement. As Israeli apologies, even those that are insincere, are rare, it鈥檚 worth examining the background that led up to this one...
ICJ is collateral damage in dysfunctional global system: experts
Ignored by Russia and Israel, the International Court of Justice is hamstrung by a dysfunctional global system that sees countries comply with its rulings 鈥� or not 鈥� based on their own double standards, experts say....
1971 genocide deserves global recognition: CJ
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan on Monday said that no other countries in the history of the world had witnessed such genocide in such a short span of time as Bangladesh saw in 1971...
ICJ orders Israel to halt assault on Rafah
The top United Nations court on Friday ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah 鈥榠mmediately鈥�, a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on...
Ringing true for Gaza
AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing 鈥� yet again 鈥� hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there鈥檚 much to be learnt from recalling Dr Martin Luther King鈥檚 visionary words on Vietnam 57 years ago...