enforced disappearances Bangladesh
The need for a clear charter for the intelligence agencies
The catch-all definition of national security must not be used as a cloak to hide abuses.
Human rights in Bangladesh / Political will key to effective UPR implementation
The Bangladesh government has again taken a protective stance regarding the implementation of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations.
Probe rights abuses, protect civil rights
United Nations member states yesterday urged Bangladesh to investigate rights violations by law enforcers, protect civil rights and ensure free and fair trials.
Logging Disappearances: Rights groups, activists face legal hassles
Human rights organisations and activists, who work to document incidents of enforced disappearances, operate under the burden of judicial harassment as they face a bevy of legal cases and police investigations.
An attempt to impede free journalism
Even if the state has an objection against a citizen’s activity, can they legally pick up that person?
Column by Mahfuz Anam / ‘We will do whatever is required for the welfare of the people’
So who determines what is ‘required’ to ensure that welfare?
US SANCTIONS / A ‘tonic’ for our security forces?
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
Mizanur’s ordeal was unacknowledged detention and torture
Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.
The need for a clear charter for the intelligence agencies
The catch-all definition of national security must not be used as a cloak to hide abuses.
Political will key to effective UPR implementation
The Bangladesh government has again taken a protective stance regarding the implementation of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations.
Probe rights abuses, protect civil rights
United Nations member states yesterday urged Bangladesh to investigate rights violations by law enforcers, protect civil rights and ensure free and fair trials.
Logging Disappearances: Rights groups, activists face legal hassles
Human rights organisations and activists, who work to document incidents of enforced disappearances, operate under the burden of judicial harassment as they face a bevy of legal cases and police investigations.
An attempt to impede free journalism
Even if the state has an objection against a citizen’s activity, can they legally pick up that person?
‘We will do whatever is required for the welfare of the people’
So who determines what is ‘required’ to ensure that welfare?
A ‘tonic’ for our security forces?
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
Mizanur’s ordeal was unacknowledged detention and torture
Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.