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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that police assaulted a number of political activists and other demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and demonstratio...

[RE: UP-083-2006: BANGLADESH: Police defy High Court order by continuing to make threats; UP-062-2006: BANGLADESH: Harassment and threats continue towards victim despite a High Court ruling ordering t...

[RE: UP-089-2006: BANGLADESH: Government names the head of the judicial probe commission into the police brutality on journalists; UA-128-2006: BANGLADESH: Journalists beaten by the police at the Chit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the police brutality on journalists at the Chittagong stadium on April 16. Following the incident, a d...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that at least 16 journalists were injured due to police brutality at the Bir Sreshtha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong o...

[RE: UP-062-2006: BANGLADESH: Harassment and threats continue towards victim despite a High Court ruling ordering the alleged perpetrators to stop; UP-058-2006: BANGLADESH: Police seriously intimidate...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you a statement issued by the World Forum for Democratization in Asia. The statement points specifically to the current state of...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Bishwanath police in Sylhet district have deprived three victims, including an immigrant couple from the UK, from seek...

[RE: UP-068-2006: BANGLADESH: Four alleged perpetrators of rape walk free due to their political influence and power; UA-018-2006: BANGLADESH: Gang rape of a minority woman in Bagerhat district] ̵...

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; unfair prosecution for trial; inadequate action by authorities; threat and intimidation; collapse of rule of law ——————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Task Force against Torture (TFT) of Meherpur that following a misunderstanding between the villagers of Bhorat village a...

[RE: UP-058-2006: BANGLADESH: Police seriously intimidate and threaten victim, her husband and her witnesses; UA-105-2006: BANGLADESH: Pregnant woman tortured by police in Dhaka] ———...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that Mrs. Shahin Sultana Santa, a woman who we reported was tortured by the police in Dhaka, despite being pregnant and who ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a man was killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-4 in the name of ‘crossfire’ on 9 March 2006. The man was arrested ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a pregnant woman, who is diabetic patient, was tortured by the police on the street and in a prison van on 12 M...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal attacks on opposition party activist, Mr. Zahirul Islam Litu, by members of the youth wing of the r...

[RE: UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by pol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have beaten a number of political activists and demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and peace...

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...

The Government of Bangladesh has conducted a political crackdown of massive proportions, arresting over 10’000 persons between February 2nd and 5th, 2006. The police have randomly an arbitrarily arre...