An informative event hosted in the UK Parliament by Bob Blackman MP, the Bangladesh Unity Forum, and Doughty Street Chambers barristers shed an important light on the alarming rise of political and religious violence and the threats to democracy in Bangladesh. Ahead of the February elections, parliamentarians, lawyers, and activists discussed t...
The following is the statement from Sheikh Hasina and her family members regarding the recent sentence issued against them in a land-corruption case —- We firmly deny all allegations of corruption, with each charge brought against us tainted by the political motivations of our opponents. The ACC is under the control of an unelected gove...
Fifteen months have passed under “the Shylock of Bangladesh”, Dr Yunus. In the fourteen months of his illegitimate rule, Dhaka alone has seen 456 recorded murders, according to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police itself. From last September to this October, DMP registered an average of 33 murder cases per month. Nationwide, 4,177 murder ca...
The verdicts announced against me have been made by a rigged tribunal established and presided over by an unelected government with no democratic mandate. They are biased and politically motivated. In their distasteful call for the death penalty, they reveal the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government to re...
“This week’s visit from the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights to Bangladesh comes at a time of increasingly egregious assaults on Bangladesh’s hard-won democracy and the fundamental human rights of its own people. The EU delegation intends to use this visit to ‘learn more about the work of the inte...
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