Evidence of “Aynaghar” was destroyed even after August 5, 2024, to hide the complicity of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), said the commission investigating enforced disappearances in its report to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus will soon visit the “joint interrogation cells” popularly known as Aynaghar, said a statement yesterday.
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defence adviser Maj Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan, and senior police officers Monirul Islam and Md Harun-Or-Rashid were all involved in enforced disappearances.
Commission receives 1,600 complaints so far
Titled "Alone in the Dark: The Nightmare of Bangladesh's Secret Underground Prison", Mujib Mashal and Shayeza Walid's piece for the NYT touches upon the stories of those unlawfully detained and kept captive by Hasina's security forces
The Human Rights Watch has called upon Bangladesh to investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture including by the Detective Branch of police.
While their families search every alleyway, survivors say that they lived right around the corner in the capital city.
Following reports that pro-Awami League contractors wielded guns during their showdown at the Public Works Department office in Pabna, two contractors handed over their firearms to police yesterday.
Evidence of “Aynaghar” was destroyed even after August 5, 2024, to hide the complicity of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), said the commission investigating enforced disappearances in its report to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus will soon visit the “joint interrogation cells” popularly known as Aynaghar, said a statement yesterday.
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defence adviser Maj Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan, and senior police officers Monirul Islam and Md Harun-Or-Rashid were all involved in enforced disappearances.
Commission receives 1,600 complaints so far
Titled "Alone in the Dark: The Nightmare of Bangladesh's Secret Underground Prison", Mujib Mashal and Shayeza Walid's piece for the NYT touches upon the stories of those unlawfully detained and kept captive by Hasina's security forces
The Human Rights Watch has called upon Bangladesh to investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture including by the Detective Branch of police.
While their families search every alleyway, survivors say that they lived right around the corner in the capital city.
Following reports that pro-Awami League contractors wielded guns during their showdown at the Public Works Department office in Pabna, two contractors handed over their firearms to police yesterday.
Nine years have passed since former BNP lawmaker M Ilias Ali and his driver Ansar disappeared from the capital, but their families are still waiting anxiously for their return home.
A man was killed and five people were injured in a clash between supporters of two union parishad chairman candidates in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila.
