enforced disappearance
Aynaghar should be a site of remembrance
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), at least 623 people were victims of enforced disappearance in the country from 2009 to 2022.
The invisible prisoners of state
The current government must also identify those who have been killed during their disappearances.
'Let my blood bring peace to the sacred soil of Bengal'
If it had not been for the student’s uprising, the heaviness of the pain for many in a similar situation would not have been relieved.
Bangladesh signs UN treaty on enforced disappearances
'It's a historic occasion,' says Yunus after signing instrument of accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
Enforced disappearance: Govt sets up inquiry commission
The government yesterday formed a five-member inquiry commission to identify and find the people who were forcibly disappeared by various intelligence and law enforcement agencies between January 1, 2010, and August 5, 2024.
EDITORIAL / Dr Yunus’s address and the path forward
Must work together for democracy and reforms
Inside the Aynaghar / ‘Captors kept watch on my family’
On the evening of December 4, 2017, around 6:45pm, M Maroof Zaman, former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam, was on his way from his Dhanmondi home to receive his daughter at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Inside the Aynaghar
After years of denial by the authorities, chilling details about secret prisons are now emerging as victims of enforced disappearances begin to speak out after their release following the dramatic fall of Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year regime.
‘Handcuffs, blindfold ... it felt like a grave’
Usually, one sees the families of the victims of enforced disappearances demanding their loved ones be returned. But in a rare occurrence, the survivors came to the fore at a programme yesterday to narrate the ordeals they went through.
Enforced disappearance - The burden of proof
According to several past reports published by Human Rights Watch, Privacy International, and Swedish Media, there has been a rise...
People can't just go 'missing'!
When nine people mysteriously go “missing” from two villages of the same upazila in less than a month, including three members of the same family...
Disappearance panic spreads in Pabna villages
Panic grips two villages in Faridpur upazila of the district as nine people hailing from there went missing in less than five weeks after being picked up by people claiming to be law enforcers.
People feeling insecure: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says people have no security of their lives at present as killings and enforced disappearances are going on across the country.
Culture of impunity led to more killings: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that increased incidents of killings have arisen out of a prevailing culture of impunity in Bangladesh.
Where have all the missing persons gone?
The statistics are frightening for any society that prides itself on its civilisational credentials, and even more so for any government....
Families of disappeared 19 for govt intervention
Families of the 19 persons, who were picked up allegedly by law enforcers about two years ago and never returned, demands the government to take necessary steps to find them.
Govt using law enforcers to crush movement: BNP
BNP accuses government of carrying out killings, abductions and repression on the 20-party alliance men using law enforcement agencies and its political cadres
ASK concerned over missing people including Salahuddin
Ain O Salish Kendra expresses deep concern over increasing number of missing people, alleging law enforcers have picked up at least 20 people this year but denied detaining them.
HRW urges probe into Salahuddin’s ‘disappearance’
Human Rights Watch urges Bangladeshi authorities to immediately order an independent investigation into "enforced disappearance" of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed