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 cattle trader is allegedly shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Baghadanga border in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenidah district early today.
A Bangladeshi national is shot to death allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Putkhali bordering area of Benapole early Saturday.
A Bangladeshi national is shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Char Kanaipara border area in Godagari upazila of Rahjshahi.
A man, who was sentenced by a mobile court to one month's imprisonment for consuming drugs, died of cardiac arrest at Dinajpur Sadar
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladeshi national dead on Chakiram border under Dhamoirhat upazila in Naogaon district
A Bangladeshi national sustains bullet injuries as members of the Border Security Force (BSF) of India open fire on him at Koijhuri in India near Boikari border of Sadar upazila in Satkhira.
An alleged drug peddler dies in police custody last night, four hours into his detention with 15 pieces of Yaba tablets at Durgabari in Mymensingh town.
Two Bangladeshi nationals are killed by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) as they opened fire on them along Charaldanga bordering area in Gomostapur upazila.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) caught 11 Indian fishermen for illegally intruding into Bangladesh territory from the Pamda River at Charghat upazila of the district yesterday noon, hours after the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up nine Bangladeshi fishermen and a minor boy, who were fishing in the Padma River near Sariakhal under the upazila, in the morning.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi youth yesterday afternoon near Kanakata Premcharanjouth border in Tentulia
