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6 March 2013 Amnesty International A wave of violent attacks against Bangladesh’s minority Hindu community shows the urgent need for authorities to provide them with better protection, Amnesty International said. Over the past week, individuals taking part in strikes called for by Islamic parties have vandalised more than 40 Hindu temples across Bangladesh. Scores of [...]

31 January 2013 Human Rights Watch Bangladesh’s overall human rights situation worsened in 2012, as the government narrowed political and civil society space, continued to shield abusive security forces from accountability, and flatly ignored calls by Human Rights Watch to reform laws and procedures in flawed war crimes and mutiny trials. Civil society and human [...]

Human Rights Watch News 11th September 2012 ‘Body is ‘Smokescreen’ for Government to Control Civil Society’ The Bangladeshi government’s recently announced commission to regulate nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) adds burdensome procedures that will hinder important watchdog functions. International donors should press the Awami League government to ensure that the country’s thriving NGO sector can continue to [...]

Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC News 10th August 2012 …Policing in the country is an industry of producing victims of torture and fabrication of criminal charges against civilians and political opponents; corruption has replaced the chain of command within the police.  The constant failure of the police to credibly investigate crimes is the single largest [...]

Human Rights Watch News 4th July 2012 Suspects in the 2009 mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles border guards (BDR) have been subjected to widespread abuse, torture, and deaths in custody, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The mass trials of nearly 6,000 suspects raise serious fair trial concerns… At least 47 suspects [...]

Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC News 30th May 2012 Bangladesh’s State Minister for Home Affairs Mr. Shamsul Haque Tuku has advised the journalists to keep a ‘safe distance’ from the country’s police while both the journalists and the police are on duty. The minister is cited in the national media including The Daily Star’s online [...]

Amnesty International Annual Report 2012: the state of the world’s human rights Published 24 May 2012 Extrajudicial executions continued despite a government pledge to end them. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, suspected of more than 54 unlawful killings during the year, were neither investigated independently nor brought to justice.  The government failed to enforce its [...]

United Kingdom: Home Office, Operational Guidance Note: Bangladesh, February 2012 This report, and other Country Specific Asylum Policy OGNs, can be found at UKBA website here. CONTENTS Country assessment – Actors of protection – Internal relocation – Country guidance caselaw Main categories of claims – Members of political parties – Victims of domestic violence – [...]

Amnesty International 13 February 2012 Two student opposition activists in Bangladesh, Al Mukaddas and Mohammad Waliullah, have been missing since 4 February. Eyewitnesses saw them being detained by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the Detective Branch (DB) of the Bangladesh Police in Savar, north of the capital, Dhaka. The RAB have denied holding them, with no credible explanation to [...]

Human Rights Watch January 24th 2012 The government of Bangladesh took no significant steps to investigate and prosecute torture in custody and extrajudicial killings during 2011 and showed an increasing intolerance for criticism, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2012.The government missed the chance to ensure trials that meet international standards for the [...]