Holey artisan attack 2016

Holey Artisan attack victims

A brutal militant attack claimed 22 lives, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and an Indian at Holey Artisan Cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan on 1 July 2016

Who gave Hansal Mehta the right to make ‘Faraaz’?

Recently, the trailer of the movie was released which received mixed responses from Bangladeshi audiences. People questioned the filmmaker for capitalising on a country's personal tragedy, and making it in Hindi, which is not their native language.

Farooki's ‘Saturday Afternoon’ and our obsession with image

The censor board infringes on the freedom of the artiste and the audience in equal parts.

“Still couldn’t fill the vacuum left behind by their father”

“Children miss their father every day,” said the wife of officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station Salauddin, who was killed during the Holey Artisan attack this day in the capital six years ago.

Holey Artisan Attack: Court accepts charges, asks to release Hasnat

A special tribunal in Dhaka accepts the charge sheet against eight militants in a case filed over the 2016 militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale restaurant in Gulshan. The court also orders the release of former private university teacher Hasnat Reza Karim.

Holey Artisan attack: Court seeks probe report on June 25

A Dhaka court asks the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit by June 25 the probe report in a case filed over the attack in Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan in July 2016.

June 1, 2023
June 1, 2023

Holey Artisan attack victims

A brutal militant attack claimed 22 lives, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and an Indian at Holey Artisan Cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan on 1 July 2016

January 19, 2023
January 19, 2023

Who gave Hansal Mehta the right to make ‘Faraaz’?

Recently, the trailer of the movie was released which received mixed responses from Bangladeshi audiences. People questioned the filmmaker for capitalising on a country's personal tragedy, and making it in Hindi, which is not their native language.

August 12, 2022
August 12, 2022

Farooki's ‘Saturday Afternoon’ and our obsession with image

The censor board infringes on the freedom of the artiste and the audience in equal parts.

July 1, 2022
July 1, 2022

“Still couldn’t fill the vacuum left behind by their father”

“Children miss their father every day,” said the wife of officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station Salauddin, who was killed during the Holey Artisan attack this day in the capital six years ago.

August 8, 2018
August 8, 2018

Holey Artisan Attack: Court accepts charges, asks to release Hasnat

A special tribunal in Dhaka accepts the charge sheet against eight militants in a case filed over the 2016 militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale restaurant in Gulshan. The court also orders the release of former private university teacher Hasnat Reza Karim.

May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018

Holey Artisan attack: Court seeks probe report on June 25

A Dhaka court asks the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit by June 25 the probe report in a case filed over the attack in Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan in July 2016.