A BNP delegation on Wednesday demanded army deployment during the elections to Dhaka south and Dhaka north and Chittagong city corporations to maintain law and order. “We demanded deployment of army in the three city corporations’ polls in he interest…
An alarming number of countries used the death penalty to tackle real or perceived threats to state security linked to terrorism, crime or internal instability in 2014, Amnesty International found in its annual review of the death penalty worldwide. *…
Sr BJP leader Dr. Subramanian Swamy in a statement issued in New Delhi on Monday has termed Bnp spokesperson Salahuddin’s disappearance episode as shocking, according to a message received in Dhaka The abduction of Bangladesh’s BNP spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed, on…
The horrifying murder of a blogger who was hacked to death in Dhaka this morning, the second violent killing of a Bangladeshi blogger in a month, must be a ‘wake up call’ to the authorities on the need to create…
As candicates have collected nomination papers for the city elections in Dhaka and Chittagong, the pulse of the atmosphere in the two primier cities of the country have started going up. On Sunday food minister Quamrul Islam in an apparent…
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a law that gave authorities powers to jail people for offensive online posts, a verdict hailed as a victory for free speech in the world’s largest growth market for the Internet. Section…
Chattagram Unnayan Andolon, a citizens’ platform, on Wednesday decided to endorse current Chittagong City Corporation mayor Monjurul Alam as a mayoral candidate for the upcoming CCC mayor election. Andolon convener and Chittagong University teacher Prof Abul Kalam Azad announced this…
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday turned down a request for extension of deadline for submission of nomination paper of Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections by two or three days. Rejecting the Shoto Nagorik Committee proposal for…
Though BNP leaders collected nomination papers to contest the polls, the party-led 20-party alliance on Wednesday termed a ‘serious conspiracy, blueprint and farce’ the announcement of schedule for Dhaka and Chittagong city polls at a time when its movement is…
The British House of Commons has recorded an early day motion (EDM) supported by 10 MPs noting with alarm the lack of free and open democratic process in Bangladesh. The motion sponsored by liberal democrat Huppert Julian calls upon the…
The AL leadership is yet to announce the name of its nominee for Mayor of Dhaka city south although Syed Khokan has already become lound in his claim of getting the paarty nomination Khokon, son of former Dhaka mayor Mohammad…
Election Working Group (EWG), a 29-member coalition of civil society organisations, on Monday urged the Election Commission to ensure a level-playing field for the candidates contesting the upcoming elections to the three city corporations of Dhaka and Chittagong. “EWG welcomes…
New York – The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately order an independent investigation into the enforced disappearance of Salah Uddin Ahmed, spokesperson and joint-secretary of the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP). Ahmed was last seen on the evening of March 10,…
Renewing her claim that law enforcers picked up BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, his wife Hasina Ahmed on Thursday demanded that the BNP leader be returned unharmed. She came up with the demand at a press briefing at Law…
March 11, Washington, DC – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Mexico may be rising economic powerhouses, but these five fast-growing, middle income countries are still home to nearly half of the world’s hungry, or 363 million people. That is why…
Following reports that the Bangladeshi police force is proposing immunity from prosecution for acts of torture by police officers, Amnesty International is urging the Government of Bangladesh to: – Reject the proposal outright and publicly declare that no one against…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has stressed the need to find a solution to the ongoing political impasse in Bangladesh. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein made the appeal on Wednesday when foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali met him…
Bangladesh authorities should investigate and bring to justice in fair trials all those responsible for heinous petrol bomb attacks, Amnesty International said after another 20 people were wounded overnight, the Amnesty International has said in a statement on Thursday. There…
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman has said the persons involved with extra-judicial killings must be brought to justice, following a meeting with Chief Justice SK Sinha at the latter’s office on Thursday. “Drawing the attention of…
The UN Human Rights Organisation has condemned the murder of blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka on Thursday, Secretary General’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said at the daily briefing at the UN heaqquarters on Friday. Replying to a question the spokesman said,…
“Victims of violence deserve proper justice…there was a fruitful discussion on the importance of upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights as fundamental instruments for de-escalating political tensions,” says a media release issued by the EU Delegation to…
US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has blamed the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy on a ‘culture of impunity’ persisting in Bangladesh and called for a swift and effective probe to bring the murderers to justice. Bangladeshi authorities should swiftly…
Amnesty International, the global human rights watchdog in its annual report for 2014 has said. “The exact number of people who were forcibly disappeared was not known; some estimates suggested over 80. Of the documented cases of 20 people subjected…
Some 1,101 doctors in a joint statement yesterday expressed their deep concern over the ongoing political stalemate. The statement said six people have become victims of extrajudicial killing in 24 hours on Monday but police claimed that the victims were…
A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Tuesday evening in the first leg of their visit to Bangladesh to assess the human rights situation.. The BNP told the visiting delegation…
The Federation of Human Rights Organisations, a platform of different local right bodies, has sent a letter to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking her schedule for holding a meeting with her about the country’s human rights situation.
As the law enforcers continued restricting food supply to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office for the third consecutive day, party leaders and office staff on Friday started cooking food on their own inside it for themselves. They took the…
New York – Photographs, videos, and witness statements strongly indicate that a member of Egypt’s security forces was responsible for fatally shooting a female protester in a downtown Cairo square on January 24, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence…
The International crisis group wants the AL government to commit to nonrepressive response to political dissent and the Bnp to non-violent political opposition for steering clear of the present political crisis prevailing in Bangladesh. The brussels-based group in its report…
New York – With no end in sight to politically motivated violence and other abuses in Bangladesh, state authorities need to ensure their response respects the rights of all and avoids arbitrary use of force, arrests, and disappearances, Human Rights…