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.
Criminals hacked a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Tilagor National Park Road area of Sylhet city on Tuesday night.
Bangladesh High Commission in Pretoria opens hotline numbers for the citizens of the country for any support following the xenophobic attacks on the expatriates by South Africans.
At least two people were killed and over 500 houses damaged as nor'wester lashed Nabinagar and Kasba upazilas of Brahmanbaria and Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj yesterday and on Monday night.
A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was hacked to death by criminals at Dangi village in Goalundo upazila of Rajbari district yesterday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 11 smuggled cattle from Ghasuria border in Birampur upazila yesterday.
A local Awami League leader and two others were injured in bomb attacks by criminals in Bejpara area of Jessore district town on Sunday night.
A man was killed and 25 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over gambling at Raghobendrapur village in
Police arrested two leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) in Jalashi area under Panchagarh municipality on Saturday night.
Teachers and students of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University threaten to go for a tough movement from Tuesday if the sexual offenders in Pahela Baishakh’s incident on the Dhaka University campus are not brought to book by then.
Jahangirnagar University authorities suspend eight students over allegations that they sexually harassed a female indigenous student on the evening of Pahela Baishakh.
