enforced disappearance cases in Bangladesh

Ensure justice for the disappeared

Hasina's direct involvement in enforced disappearance allowed the crime to continue for so long.

Human Rights Day 2024 / ‘We must challenge not just regimes, but also oppressive legal machinery'

Human rights lawyer Taqbir Huda talks about the current state of human rights in Bangladesh and the potential way forward.

Aynaghar should be a site of remembrance

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), at least 623 people were victims of enforced disappearance in the country from 2009 to 2022.

The invisible prisoners of state

The current government must also identify those who have been killed during their disappearances.

'Let my blood bring peace to the sacred soil of Bengal'

If it had not been for the student’s uprising, the heaviness of the pain for many in a similar situation would not have been relieved.

Inside the Aynaghar / ‘Captors kept watch on my family’

On the evening of December 4, 2017, around 6:45pm, M Maroof Zaman, former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam, was on his way from his Dhanmondi home to receive his daughter at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Inside the Aynaghar

After years of denial by the authorities, chilling details about secret prisons are now emerging as victims of enforced disappearances begin to speak out after their release following the dramatic fall of Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year regime.

Enforced disappearances: UN group records 5 more cases

Five new incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh were reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in the last one year.

December 16, 2024
December 16, 2024

Ensure justice for the disappeared

Hasina's direct involvement in enforced disappearance allowed the crime to continue for so long.

December 10, 2024
December 10, 2024

‘We must challenge not just regimes, but also oppressive legal machinery'

Human rights lawyer Taqbir Huda talks about the current state of human rights in Bangladesh and the potential way forward.

October 8, 2024
October 8, 2024

Aynaghar should be a site of remembrance

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), at least 623 people were victims of enforced disappearance in the country from 2009 to 2022.

August 30, 2024
August 30, 2024

The invisible prisoners of state

The current government must also identify those who have been killed during their disappearances.

August 30, 2024
August 30, 2024

'Let my blood bring peace to the sacred soil of Bengal'

If it had not been for the student’s uprising, the heaviness of the pain for many in a similar situation would not have been relieved.

August 21, 2024
August 21, 2024

Inside the Aynaghar

After years of denial by the authorities, chilling details about secret prisons are now emerging as victims of enforced disappearances begin to speak out after their release following the dramatic fall of Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year regime.

August 21, 2024
August 21, 2024

‘Captors kept watch on my family’

On the evening of December 4, 2017, around 6:45pm, M Maroof Zaman, former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam, was on his way from his Dhanmondi home to receive his daughter at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

September 18, 2022
September 18, 2022

Enforced disappearances: UN group records 5 more cases

Five new incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh were reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in the last one year.