Thousands of Burmese Muslims from the Rhakine State in Myanmar, known as Rohingyas, have fled into southeastern Bangaldesh during the first half of 1997. AI is ...
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Press release: Amnesty International welcomed the pardon and release of three Dhaka university professors but said they should never have been charged.
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 ...
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The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings.
