On 23 October, woman human rights defender Shampa Goswami was threatened by a gang of men in Satkhira town, in Bangladesh's south western Satkhira district, after ...
KM Shamim Akhter, former vice-president of a left wing student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra Union, was abducted by men in plain clothes suspected of being ...
Hardly a week goes by in Bangladesh without people being shot in Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) operations. RAB is a special police force, created to combat criminal ...
The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings.
A 20 year-old man, Manik, was released from detention on 29 March 2011. He had been held without charge in Bangladesh since 8 March. The Urgent Action issued on ...
A 20-year-old man, Manik, is at risk of torture and extrajudicial execution in Bangladesh after being arrested on 8 March 2011. He was showing his relatives the ...