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 man was killed and six others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over harvesting paddy from a disputed land at
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is set to resume its Dhaka-Cox's Bazar flight from today after three years shutdown.
Three more bodies are recovered Friday, raising the death toll to 11 in the trawler capsize in the Buriganga river flowing through Narayanganj.
The High Court has directed the returning officers to receive and scrutinise by today the nomination papers of 13 ward councillor aspirants in Dhaka city corporations’ elections.
HSC and equivalent examinations begin peacefully throughout the country with over 10.5 lakhs examines are expected to appear in the exams.
At least 15 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between villagers and police over setting electricity lines of Palli
Four Detective Branch (DB) of police members were beaten up by locals and handed over to Indian Border Security Force yesterday after
Seven eminent personalities of the country receive the Independence Award-2015 in recognition for their outstanding contributions in their respective fields at the national level
Shahzadpur municipality mayor’s son has been sued for posting a distorted image of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a derogatory comment about her on Facebook.
A robbery case accused has been found dead while on remand at the custody of Chawk Bazar Police Station in Dhaka
