Joint Interrogation Cell evidence destroyed after August 5

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.
20 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Yunus listens to ‘chilling’ Aynaghar stories, to visit secret prisons

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus will soon visit the “joint interrogation cells” popularly known as Aynaghar, said a statement yesterday.
19 January 2025, 18:00 PM

Enforced disappearances: ‘Hasina herself was involved’

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.
14 December 2024, 18:22 PM
9 November 2024, 16:00 PM

NYT report on Aynaghar details physical, psychological torture of captives

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
19 October 2024, 13:01 PM

Bangladesh should probe allegations of enforced disappearances, torture: HRW

The Human Rights Watch has called upon Bangladesh to investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture including by the Detective Branch of police.
4 February 2023, 07:42 AM