Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
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 […]
On 14 November, UN experts said that “As Bangladesh heads towards national elections in early 2024, we expect a sharp increase in political violence, including the arrest of senior opposition leaders, the mass arbitrary detention of thousands of political activists, Very troubled by the use of excessive force. There was an internet shutdown by authorities […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the freeing of political prisoners and protecting the right to peaceful assembly. HRW, an international non-governmental organization based in New York, made the call in a report on its website on Wednesday. The Bangladesh government is ignoring international calls for restraint and its promises to hold peaceful, free […]
Referring to the criminal activities of the Rohingya people who have taken refuge in Bangladesh, the minister said that they (Rohingya people) usually fight with each other with firearms, divided into several sub-groups. “Rohingya scale barbed wire fence and cross into Myanmar to smuggle yaba. They have brutally killed a DGFI officer in Tambru camp […]
Several Rohingya refugees told AFP that police abuse was “rampant”. Ali Jakar, 20, said, “A few days back I was returning from a hospital to the camp with my brother’s medical report. APBN officials stopped me at the checkpoint, interrogated me and slapped me.” Jecker said they stole the equivalent of $50 dollars from him. […]
