Many leaders of BNP and its affiliated bodies have been sentenced. They are fugitives. They include joint general secretary Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohail, information affairs secretary Azizul Bari Helal, volunteer affairs secretary Mir Sarafat Ali, former Jubo Dal president Sultan Salauddin and former general secretary Khandekar Inamul Haq, current organizing secretary Ishaq Sarkar, former […]
Ensure fair, transparent legal process for all arrested: US
They threatened the victims and beat up two youths who were with them. The accused then raped both the girls, first inside a local tea shop and then at the back side of a shop. After that, BCL leader Shakeel and his friend Mehedi held the victims hostage in a local primary school and raped […]
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 […]
