1989. It had already been way more than five years since Hussein Muhammad Ershad assumed office in December 1983. A political gloom filled the air. Not only in the capital Dhaka, but everywhere. We could feel the fearfulness, the gloom and the repression, then still living in a western small town, eagerly hoping to step in the University of Dhaka as a student...
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...
The Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six left political parties, and Rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to improve law and order situation and stop repression on the children and women across the country...
The Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, in a statement on Sunday expressed concern over increasing countrywide repressions on women and children and also filling cases against student leaders...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner on Saturday urged the journalists to use 鈥榳omen repression鈥� instead of rape in media reports...
Suspended superintendent of police SM Fazlul Haque assaulted several video journalists on the premises of a Natore court on Tuesday...
Two men were arrested early Friday in a case filed over raping a 15-year-old girl from the Marma community of Baishari union under Naikhyangchari upazila in...
A case was filed recently against former land minister Narayan Chandra Chanda for abducting two women in Khulna...
Teachers from various universities across Bangladesh, united under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Repression Teachers Rally,鈥� have called for an immediate end to the harassment of students as well as 鈥榤ass arrests.鈥�
Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha and other opposition political parties, in a statement on Saturday, said that the Awami League government was attempting to evade responsibility for the killings of students, involved in quota reform movement, by arresting opposition leaders and activists...
ON JUNE 5, a High Court bench declared illegal a government circular issued in 2018, which abolished the 30 per cent quota for the dependents of the freedom fighters. In protest, students from all institutions 鈥� schools to universities 鈥� started a non-violent movement, which was made violent by the attack on the protesters by the Chhatra League and the police...
The High Court on Tuesday banned a government law officer from appearing in courts for 20 days for making contemptuous remarks on social media against a judicial officer following an altercation in courtroom...
SURVIVORS of sexual harassment on the University of Dhaka campus during Pahela Boishakh celebrations in 2016 still await justice as the case remains stuck in legal bureaucracy. On January 31, a Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal had to...
The survivors of sexual assault during the Pahela Baishaikh celebration on the Dhaka University Campus nine years ago still wait for justice as the case against a lone accused over the sexual assault remains pending with...
A Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal said that multiple investigation agencies properly and extensively investigated the case filed on the charges of rape and murder of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia...