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 picks up Imran, frees him after 7hrs
Rab released Gonojagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker last night around seven hours after picking him up from a rally called in protest against extrajudicial killing in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive.
Imran H Sarker released after questioning: Rab
Gonojagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker was released nearly seven hours after he was detained by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Dhaka’s Shahbagh area this afternoon, the elite force says.
4 jailed for packaging expired food items
A mobile court sentences four persons to imprisonment for two years each for selling and storing expired food items at Lalbagh in Old Dhaka.
5 'JMB militants' held in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in separate drives arrests five alleged members of banned Islamist militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from different places of Rajshahi yesterday.
2 ‘militants’ held in Dhaka
Two suspected female members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) are detained from Dhaka last night.
10 jailed for selling untreated water in Karwan Bazar
A mobile court jails 10 persons for different terms and fined them Tk 350,000 for selling untreated water at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.
6 muggers held in Rupnagar, Savar
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained six members of a muggers’ gang from Dhaka’s Rupnagar and Savar, on the outskirts of the capital.
Beauty rape, murder: Key accused remanded
A Habiganj court places Babul Mia, main accused in Beauty rape and murder case, in the custody of law enforcers for a five-day remand interrogation.
Attacker Foyzur believes in militancy: Rab
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) suspects that Foyzur Rahman, who knifed Muhammad Zafar Iqbal yesterday, believes in militancy.
Rab assures foolproof security at Shaheed Minar
Rapid Action Battalion has assured foolproof security around the Central Shaheed Minar premises tomorrow for the International Mother Language Day.