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.
A judicial probe committee yesterday submitted its report to the High Court saying officials of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station tortured and forced three people to give confessional statements to magistrates about raping and killing a minor girl who later turned out to be alive after 49 days last year.
The family of the apprentice lawyer, who died in a prison cell of a hospital after alleged torture by members of Detective Branch of police, was able to file a murder case yesterday with a Barishal court that ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the incident.
Relatives of apprentice lawyer Rejaul Karim Reja, who died in a prison cell of a Barishal hospital, yesterday alleged that Kotwali police did not record a murder case against three members of Detective Brach of police.
Fifty-one academics, human rights activists and lawyers have issued a statement demanding the release of Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam, who they claim landed in jail on Thursday for taking photos of buses departing Kutupalong for Bhasan Char.
An under trial prisoner of the district jail died at Faridpur Medical College Hospital early yesterday.
Hours into his arrest, an alleged drug peddler dies in police custody at a hospital in Sadar upazila of Jamalpur.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) returned a Bangladeshi cattle trader's body to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday three days after his killing at Durgapur border in Aditmari upazila of the district.
A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot and another picked up allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kurigram and
Terming extrajudicial killings a bar to rule of law, Law Minister Anisul Huq says stern action will be taken if information in this regard is given to the government.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladeshi cattle trader dead near Kushkhali border in Sadar upazila early yesterday.
