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 Bangladeshi cattle grazier is killed allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members in the Indian territory opposite to Satkhira frontier.
A man who has been serving 17 years in prison without trial in a murder case secures bail.
One hundred and forty-four people are killed by the hands of law enforcement agencies up until now this year, a human rights body claims.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead another Bangladeshi national in Chhat Karaibari border area under Roumari upazila of
Two Bangladeshi nationals are gunned down allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kurigram and Jhenidah districts.
Indian border guards Border Security Force (BSF) guns down a Bangladeshi national in Patgram border of Lalmonirhat.
A Bangladeshi was shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Telkupi border area under Shibganj upazila of the
A Bangladeshi young man is shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members on Telkupi border in Shibganj upazila, Chapainawabganj.
A Bangladeshi national is shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Burirhat border in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members guns down a Bangladeshi cattle trader inside the Indian territory opposite to Roumari border in Kurigram early today.
