[ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: Council urged to ensure Bangladesh passes pending Bill criminalizing torture - 2010-02-19

[Human Rights Day] BANGLADESH: Ensuring human rights for ordinary citizens is an urgent need - 2009-12-10

BANGLADESH: Government should probe extrajudicial killings and reform the system instead of making denials - 2009-11-18

BANGLADESH: Torture of journalist reiterates the necessity for a law to punish the perpetrators - 2009-10-23

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh's international obligation of criminalising torture remains pending for eleven years - 2009-10-05

BANGLADESH: Torture and Custodial Death (Prohibition) Bill, 2009 is placed before Parliament - 2009-09-11

[AHRC Article] BANGLADESH: Nation urgently needs laws and legal reforms to stop custodial torture and extrajudicial killings - 2009-09-10

[AHRC Forwarded Statement] BANGLADESH: Rights group sought Supreme Court's intervention to protect right to life and fair trial - 2009-09-02

BANGLADESH: Public Interest Litigation should be filed on extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies - 2009-08-28

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh should investigate in depth the Chittagong Hill Tracts problem to ensure a realistic, rights-based solution - 2009-08-10

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BANGLADESH: Man arbitrarily detained and tortured to death by paramilitary force and police in Dhaka - 2010-03-02

BANGLADESH: Journalist tortured in police vehicle in Rangpur - 2010-02-03

BANGLADESH: Around 30 lower caste families in the Hindu community face eviction in Chittagong - 2009-12-08

UPDATE (Bangladesh): A woman tortured by police while pregnant gets help from the courts after three years; police harassment continues - 2009-12-07

BANGLADESH: A former liberation fighter gets state honours at his funeral, but no investigation into his murder in custody - 2009-12-04

BANGLADESH: Police allow three women to be beaten by a mob during a land dispute - 2009-11-19

UPDATE (Bangladesh): A torture victim is missing after being picked up by police - 2009-11-13

BANGLADESH: Police detain and torture a man after fabricating four successive cases against him due to a grudge - 2009-11-03

BANGLADESH: Police prevent a journalist from filing torture allegations against paramilitary soldiers - 2009-10-31

BANGLADESH: Police pressure the victim of an acid attack to withdraw her case and marry her attacker - 2009-10-30

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BANGLADESH: Torture victims have no faith in the judicial system - 2009-06-25

BANGLADESH: A Bill against torture is introduced in Bangladesh - 2009-02-19

BANGLADESH: A quandary for the prisoners - 2008-11-07

BANGLADESH: AHRC cautiously welcomes order on separation of judiciary - 2007-01-11

BANGLADESH: New petition urges end to political control of judges - 2006-11-15

BANGLADESH: AHRC launches Bangladesh human rights webpage - 2006-11-10

BANGLADESH: Killer, torturer list submitted to UN peacekeeping unit - 2006-08-24

[ALRC Press Release] BANGLADESH: UN inaction on Bangladesh "immoral", new report says - 2006-08-24

BANGLADESH: UN needs special envoy for Bangladesh, AHRC says - 2006-08-18

BANGLADESH: UN urged to bar Bangladesh from peacekeeping - 2006-08-17

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Links

• Torture and Custodial Death (Prohibition) Bill 2009 (English, Bangla)
• ALRC Submissions to the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
• UPI Asia Online: Humanity or Humor?
• Constitution of Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Government
• Bangladesh Government Press
• National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
• State of Emergency Ordinance-2007 (Bangla, English translation)
• Emergency Power Rules 2007 (English translation)
• National Human Rights Commission Ordinance 2007 (pg 1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
• Anti-Terror Ordinance-2008 (Bangla)