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.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) arrested five Bangladeshis after they entered the Indian territory illegally through Burirhat border in
An alleged robber was killed in a 'gunfight' with police in Alfadanga upazila of the district early yesterday.
Speakers at a discussion held on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of Nalta Central Ahsania Mission in Kaliganj upazila of
A Chandpur court yesterday issued arrest warrant against former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon and his wife
An alleged leader of a robber gang was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Hongshu Rajerchar area of the Sundarbans early yesterday.
Police have sought cancellation of a legal provision that bars them from justifying torture and inhuman treatment of anyone in custody
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) guns down a Bangladeshi near the Khalisha Kotal border at Phulbari upazila of Kurigram
A Jamaat activist, the prime accused of the February 6 Gaibandha bus arson, was killed in a "shootout" with the Rab in the district yesterday morning.
Members of Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi farmer and injured another when the farmers protested BSF men's assault on their wives at Birampur upazila in Dinajpur yesterday.
