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BANGLADESH: Man sexually violated by the police in Chuadanga 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that on 3 July 2006, a rickshaw driver named Inarul Islam Ena was arbitrarily arrested, forced to drive overnight, and sodomize...

BANGLADESH: An elderly woman is tortured to death by the Savar police in Dhaka

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a sixty-five year-old woman named Mrs. Nayan Banu was beaten to death by three police men from the Savar Police Sta...

BANGLADESH: Woman tortured by the Police in the office of the Superintendent of Police in Satkhira district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a woman named Mrs. Rasheda Khatun, the Family Planning Inspector (FPI) of the health and family planning department...

BANGLADESH: Six persons arbitrarily arrested and one of them tortured to death by the Hathazari police in Chittagong district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Hathazari police in Chittagong District arbitrarily arrested six persons in the early morning of 29 June 2006. ...

BANGLADESH: Judge grants bail to an alleged rapist in Dinajpur district despite having ample medical evidence and a police investigation report asserting the rape 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that an alleged rapist has been granted bail by a judge of the Special Tribunal of Women and Children Repression Prevention of ...

BANGLADESH: Opposition political leaders arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Mohonpur police in Rajshahi district

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that two persons, both local opposition political leaders, were arbitrarily arrested on suspicion, detained and tortured while ...

BANGLADESH: Four persons, including a pregnant woman, tortured by the Paikgachha police in Khulna district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that four persons, including a pregnant woman were tortured while one was arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Paikgachha p...

BANGLADESH: Man killed by the Rajarhat police in Kurigram district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Rajarhat police in Kurigram district allegedly killed a man on the night of 22 June 2006. Mr. Kasi Uddin went to the p...

New easy process to support the urgent appeals programme

The Asian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) Urgent Appeals Programme wishes to remind you of our new urgent appeal online support system. We strongly urge you to use this system and to help pressure g...

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh urged to remove barriers and take credible action to ensure protection of torture victims

On May 9th, 2006, Bangladesh was elected to the new United Nations Human Rights Council, which is currently holding its first session in Geneva. As part of the voluntary pledge the government made pri...

BANGLADESH: Man killed by police torture in Gaibandha Sadar police station on the instruction of ruling party political leaders 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Sajedur Rahman Sarkar Sajid, who was entrapped by the police and intelligence agents on the instruction of ruling poli...

The AHRC is happy to launch the urgent appeal online support system

The urgent appeals programme has experienced considerable growth over the last years. To ensure that individual support by UA programme subscribers will continue despite the increased issuing of urgen...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Judicial Probe Commission has yet to submit its report regarding police brutality 

[UP-095-2006: BANGLADESH: Government names District Judge to conduct a judicial probe into the police brutality on journalists; RE: UP-089-2006: BANGLADESH: Government names the head of the judicial p...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Safety measures must be taken to ensure the lives of Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband

[RE: UP-112-2006: BANGLADESH: Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators; UP-101-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096...

BANGLADESH: Government’s hypocritical talk on upholding rule of law and human rights

By dismissing a case of police torture and degrading treatment on May 21, 2006, the Fourth Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression, under the Chief Metropolitan MagistrateR...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators 

[RE: UP-101-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed ...

BANGLADESH: Police negligence in the disappearance and killing of a man in Sunamganj district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Chhatak police in Sunamganj district neglected to act on a complaint of a man’s disappearance, which may have re...

BANGLADESH: Twelve-year-old girl repeatedly raped and held hostage by traffic police constable in Dhaka 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged repeated rape of a 12-year-old girl by a traffic police constable in Dhaka between 7 and 15 April ...

UNITED NATIONS: People’s engagement with Human Rights Council must now begin

The new Human Rights Council was elected on May 9, 2006. According to the General Assembly Resolution of April 3, 2006,  When electing members of the Council, Member States shall take into account th...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police 

[RE: UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed Judicial Probe Commission report; UP-083-2006: BANGLADESH: Police defy High Court order by continuing to make ...