Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act
Editorial / Police's strange demand
We are perturbed and confused by the demand made by the police for a repeal of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act that makes torture in custody by law enforcers or government officials a punishable criminal offence.
CUSTODIAL TORTURE / Breaking of spirits and bones
Forty-four years since independence, must we remain a caricature of a dysfunctional, postcolonial state where law enforcers...
Editorial / HRFB demands rejection of police proposal
THE Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB), a network of 19 rights bodies, has expressed grave concern over the recent police proposal to amend the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013, terming the recommendations as unconstitutional and in violation of fundamental human rights.
Editorial / Police wants to modify torture prevention act!
IT is disquieting to see that police has proposed change to some important safeguard provisions of Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013. A prominent Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, has reported that the police authority has sent a proposal to Home Ministry to bring alterations in the definition, investigation process and punishment provisions stipulated in the Act.
Police's strange demand
We are perturbed and confused by the demand made by the police for a repeal of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act that makes torture in custody by law enforcers or government officials a punishable criminal offence.
Breaking of spirits and bones
Forty-four years since independence, must we remain a caricature of a dysfunctional, postcolonial state where law enforcers...
HRFB demands rejection of police proposal
THE Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB), a network of 19 rights bodies, has expressed grave concern over the recent police proposal to amend the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013, terming the recommendations as unconstitutional and in violation of fundamental human rights.
Police wants to modify torture prevention act!
IT is disquieting to see that police has proposed change to some important safeguard provisions of Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013. A prominent Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, has reported that the police authority has sent a proposal to Home Ministry to bring alterations in the definition, investigation process and punishment provisions stipulated in the Act.