BNP leader Qayyum detained in Malaysia
“Cash worth Tk 180,000 was recovered from them. Local residents said they were distributing money for kettles (the election symbol of an independent candidate). They are being interrogated,” he said. After the two of them were caught in a video footage being interrogated, Naeem Mia was heard saying that Mamun Mia, a supporter of the […]
The statement said ANFREL believes that the absence of accountability, fairness and inclusivity in electoral processes risks lacking genuineness and electoral competitiveness. It said this has created significant electoral challenges such as repression of the opposition, restrictions on political freedoms, limited access to unbiased information and widespread political violence. The statement further said that in […]
Noting that BNP always wants to thwart elections, Abdur Razzaq said what the Awami League wants to say is that it is not possible to conduct elections by going beyond the country’s constitution. Elections are not held under an election-time government anywhere in the world, including India, Sri Lanka, Japan, the US and the UK. […]
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) had arrested a drug dealer, Tarek Mehmood, two years ago. The organization identified him as the leader of a deadly ice trading gang. But due to lack of necessary witnesses and evidence, he was acquitted by the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on 6 March. According to the statement of […]
The charges in these separate cases included unlawful assembly, obstructing police work, assault, vandalism of vehicles, arson and cocktail explosion. The plaintiff in four of these cases is the police, while one involves the driver. The case registered at Shahjahanpur police station in September 2018 involved 80 to 85 BNP leaders and workers who, according […]
BNP Standing Committee member Selima Rahman has said that Bangladesh has now become number one in terms of human rights violations. He alleged that BNP leaders and workers were being repressed for the last 15 years. Selima Rahman said that about 20,000 BNP leaders and workers have been arrested in the past month. Speaking at […]
The culprits are not 845 different individuals. There are also cases of opposition party workers being sentenced in many cases. According to lawyers for the defendants in the case, the number of BNP activists convicted in multiple cases is around 10. At the same time, more than 300 accused were acquitted in these cases because […]
Singra Police Station, Natore Jail and sources of the victim’s family said that Singra Police has arrested Abul Kalam Azad in a case of sabotage registered at Singra Police Station on the night of October 28. When he was produced in the court the next day, the court ordered him to be sent to Natore […]
According to the statement of the case, around 53 leaders and workers of BNP and its affiliated bodies, including Khilkhet police station BNP general secretary Abdur Rasheed, vandalized vehicles with local weapons demanding the release of party president Begum Khaleda Zia. Later, they threw bricks and stones towards the police as members of the law […]
Like these leaders and workers of Sonargaon upazila, many BNP leaders and workers of the district are fugitives. One of them is former district student group president Shafikul. With some followers he moved out of the district on 22 October, returning to the area on 3 November. After this, 30 people under the leadership of […]
They have been arrested from different parts of the country, said ASP Al Amin, assistant director of the legal and media wing of the RAB headquarters. He said that RAB has so far arrested a total of 765 people in connection with violence and vandalism in various parts of the country, including the October 28 […]
Then why was an innocent student considered a vagrant and arrested? In response to this question, acting in-charge of Lalbagh police station Khandaker Helal Uddin told Prothom Alo that Helal has been arrested on the basis of suspicion. Later, if the allegations were not proved, an appeal was made to acquit him of the case. […]
Bangladesh has launched a widespread and violent crackdown on opposition parties to “eliminate competition” ahead of general elections, including arresting nearly 10,000 activists, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Along with thousands of people arrested, several people from the dominant Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have also been charged. HRW said, according to the BNP, about […]
It read, along with Shah Alam, the elite force arrested 25 people from different areas of the country for alleged links to vandalism, arson and violence. It said that till now RAB has arrested a total of 715 people involved in violence and vandalism in different parts of the country since October 28.