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 youth is gunned down by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Sarialjot Kankata bordering area in Tentulia upazila.
Bangladesh and Indian border guards will jointly investigate any border killings, both forces have decided in a five-day discussion held in Dhaka aimed to bolster the cooperation among both forces.
Indian Border Security Force allegedly guns down a Bangladeshi teenager along Jibonnagar frontier of Chuadanga.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly picked up a Bangladeshi youth from near the zero line in Rajoniline border area under Tahirpur
A Bangladeshi youth was shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near Kakpara Moynaguri border in Panchagarh Sadar upazila yesterday.
Parbatya Sramik Oikya Parishad, a platform of Bangalee settlers, held a rally at the press club in the district yesterday, demanding
A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Mollarchar border in Roumari upazila of the
A Bangladeshi youth sustained bullet injuries as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly fired gunshots at him at Goytapara border in
International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday accepted the three charges pressed by prosecutors on March 20 against
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shoot dead a Bangladeshi national near Johorpur frontier in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila.
