Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)
Jailing rights defenders sends the wrong message
Instead, investigate and stop human rights violators
Was the US visa policy against undemocratic actors necessary?
The message between the lines is that the US is keeping a very close eye on Bangladesh at the moment.
147 illegal handsets worth Tk 15 lakh seized
BTRC, RAB conducted a drive at Siddhirganj’s Kassaf Shopping Centre
An attempt to impede free journalism
Even if the state has an objection against a citizen’s activity, can they legally pick up that person?
What really happened to Sultana in Rab custody?
Rab’s modus operandi again comes into question as calls for independent investigation grow
Rab must answer for latest killing
The way it conducted its operation in a Narayanganj village is concerning
Video released by Rab: Families trace missing ones
Abu Jafar’s family was sure that he had been living in the Maldives for the last three years. He last visited Bangladesh in 2019 and left home saying he was going to the Maldives.
US SANCTIONS / A ‘tonic’ for our security forces?
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
Cutting Extrajudicial Killings: US satisfied with Rab’s progress
Visiting US Assistant Secretary Donald Lu yesterday expressed satisfaction that Rab reduced extrajudicial killings since late 2021, when the US imposed sanctions on the force.
Rab opens Facebook page to verify fake news
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has opened a Facebook page titled 'Rab Cyber News Verification Centre' to make people aware of false news and rumour spread during the upcoming general election.
Three held with Tk 8cr in capital
Rapid Action Battalion detained three people in the capital's Motijheel and Gulshan yesterday for allegedly distributing money to influence the coming election and instigate violence.
1 held for spreading 'rumours' on social media
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claim to have detained one person in Dhaka for allegedly spreading anti-state rumours on social media.
'Drug dealer' killed in 'shootout'
A fugitive accused of drug peddling was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab at Shahidnagar area in Narayanganj yesterday.
2 arrested over fake news sites
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested two people for their involvement in creating fake websites identical to those of different local media outlets and circulating false and “anti-government” news through them.
14 foreigners held over fraudulence
They came to Bangladesh as football players or for business purposes. But after the end of their visa tenure, they formed a nexus and started amassing money by duping Bangladeshis using social media platforms.
Rab raiding Gonoshastha Kendra Hospital in Savar
Rapid Action Battalion-4 conducts a raid at Gonoshastha Kendra Hospital in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka based on information of “anomalies in its treatment process”.
Rab arrests 5 for 'selling fake question papers'
Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested five frauds who duped people by circulating fake question papers of MBBS admission tests, and six question paper-seeking admission aspirants, from different places of the capital in the last two days.
2 killed in terror den
A faction of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh had plotted to carry out subversive activities at the court building of Chattogram, Rab claimed after busting a “militant den” in the district's Mirsarai yesterday.
Man killed in 'gunfight' with Rab
A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Rajshahi early yesterday.