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 trader was shot dead and another injured allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi fisherman from the Teesta River in Dimla upazila of the district on
An under-trial prisoner of the district jail died at Sherpur Sadar Hospital on Saturday. The deceased, Jewel Mia, 30, son of Nurul Islam of
The space for practicing free thinking is shrinking in the country, while communalism and militancy are spreading alarmingly, eminent
A Bangladeshi national was shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near pillar No 902 at Bhutiamongal border in Hatibandha upazila of the district yesterday morning.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) detained a Bangladeshi farmer at Kamalpur frontier under Shibganj upazila of the district yesterday.
A Bangladeshi national is shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Adatala border point in Sapahar upazila of Naogaon early Saturday.
An under trial prisoner of the district jail died at Chapainawabganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital in the town yesterday.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi national from Sharifpur frontier under Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Sunday night.
A man, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in three check forgery cases, died of heart attack at Jhenidah Sadar Hospital
