A cross section of people including academics, politicians, and rickshaw pullers on Saturday at a protest rally in Dhaka demanded an immediate end to Israeli offensive and mass killings in Palestine...
Yet another death of a Bangladeshi at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force shows a continued disregard of Indian guards for laws and border protocols. It also shows the nullity of the pledges that Indian authorities, including the Border Security Force, have made to end border killing and to never use lethal weapons in border management. On April 16, the Bangladeshi...
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Palestine continued for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings...
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Gaza continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Dhaka and other parts of the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings in the besieged enclave...
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that Gaza had become 鈥榓 killing field鈥� because Israel has continued to block aid, an accusation an Israeli official quickly denied, saying there was 鈥榥o shortage鈥� of aid...
Bangladesh Medical University held a ghayebana janaza, funeral prayer in the absence of a body, protesting against Israel鈥檚 mass killing in Gaza, on the premises of the central mosque of the university in Dhaka on Tuesday...
WITHOUT due process of law, justice becomes arbitrary, the rule of law collapses, and authoritarianism takes hold. The staggering scale of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings under Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year despotic rule stands as undeniable proof...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday allowed a prosecution plea to show three former senior police officials arrested in a case related to an alleged 鈥榮taged鈥� extremist den raid in Mirpur鈥檚 Jahajbari where law enforcement officers fatally shot nine youths in 2016...
A Pirojpur court on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life-term imprisonment for shooting and killing a man during a robbery at Bhandaria in Pirojpur in 2005...
A Bangladesh national was killed in firing by the Indian Border Security Force at a location in Indian territory, adjacent to the Bhitargarh border under Sadar upazila in Panchagrah early Saturday.
The Border Guard Bangladesh director general, Major General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, on Saturday said they returned Indian intruders following a legal procedure, but it would be tough in the coming days if border killings continued...
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force reaffirming not to use lethal weapons in border management is welcome. The statement was made at the conference between the director generals of the border forces of India and Bangladesh...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has pressed for joint inspection and joint record of discussion engaging representatives of both sides for the construction of any permanent structure or barbed wire fence in the 150 yards of...
Reaffirming the need for synergistic efforts to uphold human rights and curb violence on the border, Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to work together with utmost synergy by enhancing joint patrolling, vigilance, and intensifying public awareness programmes...
The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...
The Bangladesh interim government law adviser, Asif Nazrul, on Wednesday hoped that the trial of the 鈥楯uly mass killings鈥� could be completed before the next national election as the interim government was committed to ensuring justice for brutal, inhuman killings committed during the July-August uprising.
Rights bodies, student platforms and other organisations on Tuesday remembered the day of the killing of Felani Khatun by India鈥檚 Border Security Force 14 years ago with renewed protests and...
JUSTICE for the murder of Felani Khatun at the hands of India鈥檚 Border Security Force on January 7, 2011, could be a point of departure towards improved border management and relations between Bangladesh and India. But it has not happened. The photograph of Felani hanging from the fence created a global stir and readily became a symbol of...
The Department of Immigration and Passports has cancelled passports of 97 individuals, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over their alleged involvement in killings during the...
At least 21 extrajudicial killings had been reported in 2024 and of them, 12 were reported since the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government took oath on August 8 after...
The chairman of the newly formed National Independent Commission formed to reinvestigate the 2009 BDR massacre, Major General (retired) ALM Fazlur Rahman, said on Thursday...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said that border killings should never be accepted under any circumstances...
Different organisations on Thursday demonstrated in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, condemning attacks on and murders of students who participated in the student-led mass uprising in July-August...
A Sylhet court on Thursday put a former additional deputy commissioner of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police on five-day remand in a case filed for shooting a photojournalist to death during the student-led mass uprising in July...
THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India鈥檚 Border Security Force once again questions the commitment of Indian authorities to ending border killing. The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh found the bodies on three spots along the border with India near the River Ichhamati at Sharsha in Jashore on December 18. While the...
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction on Wednesday demanded formation of a national enquiry commission for fresh investigation into then Bangladesh Rifles killings that took place at the then BDR headquarters in Dhaka on February 25, 2009...
Russia has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army鈥檚 chemical weapons division, investigators said Wednesday, a day after the general and his aide were killed by a blast in Moscow...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar on Saturday said that the mystery over the killings of intellectuals would be revealed if the mystery of missing filmmaker Zahir Raihan was revealed...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party recommended the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion, citing allegations of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings...