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.
4 ‘militants’ arrested in Dhaka
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) officials arrest four suspected militants from Dakkhin Khan area of Dhaka.
22 teen gang members jailed for consuming drugs
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion has sentenced 22 members of a teenage gang between three and six months in prison for consumption of drugs.
Visa fraud gang busted
Tempted by the lucrative offer of chauffeuring in Kuwait, 30 jobseekers contacted a travel agency in the capital after noticing their advertisement in a newspaper in February.
6 fraudsters held in Dhaka
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members claim to have arrested six members of a fraud gang from different parts of Dhaka.
Phensidyl seized from bus in Dhaka, 4 held
Four persons including two drug dealers were arrested with a huge amount of phensidyl in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, Rapid Action battalion (Rab) says.
2 ‘Ansar Al Islam’ members held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members claim to have arrested two activists of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from Dhaka and Barishal.
2 killed in Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’
Two alleged criminals are killed in separate incidents of what law enforcers claim to be gunfights at Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.
5 'Ansar Al Islam' members held in Rajshahi
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained five members of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.
1 held with 9,910 yaba in Chattogram
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained an alleged drug peddler with 9,910 pieces of yaba pills from Kotwali area of Chattogram city.
2 held for printing unauthorized textbooks
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have arrested two people for allegedly printing textbooks for class XI-XII, not authorized by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NTCB).