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.
Robbers looted valuables from three houses at Bolotbunia village in Sadar upazila of the district early Monday.
A court here yesterday sent two leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhattra Dal (JCD) to jail in the cases for snatching ballot boxes and setting two polling centres on fire
The flood situation in Gaibandha, Jamalpur and Bogra districts remained static as the rivers are still flowing above the danger marks.
A Khulna court accepts charges against three accused in 13-year-old boy Rakib killing case.
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Berc) increases the average power retail price by 2.93 percent and gas price by 26.29 percent with effect from September 1.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a youth with a pistol, two magazines and six bullets in Hakimpur upazila of the district
Ansarullah Bangla Team has refuted its role in the assassination of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy. In a statement published in a website named Jihadology dated August 19, it claimed it has no ties with the Ansar Al-Islam Bangladesh group.
Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday underscored the need for a "unanimous resolution" to stop all extrajudicial killings in
Two kids drowned in the Sutang River at Nazirpur village under Sadar upazila of Habiganj district on Wednesday. The deceased are
At least eight people including two children are killed after torrential rain and landslides in different areas of Cox’s Bazar.
