report in The Daily Star, Sept 17, 2023Police have arrested three members, including the chief, of a new militant outfit Tawhidul Uluhiah (Al-Jihadi) from Dhaka and other parts of the country. The arrestees — chief Jewel Molla, 29, members Rahul Hossain, 21, and Gaziul Islam, 40 — had a plan to carry out terror attacks in the country in 2024, according to the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of police. They were arrested from Bagerhat, Joypurhat and…
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report in Prothom Alo, 16 Sep 2023The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four alleged active operatives of banned militant outfit ‘Ansar Al Islam’ in separate drives conducted in different places of Thakurgaon and Dinajpur districts Thursday night, BSS reports. Flight Lieutenant Mahmud Bashir Ahmed, senior assistant director (Media) of RAB-13 confirmed their arrest in a press release issued on Friday night. It said, “Acting on intelligence, a team of RAB-13 conducted a drive and arrested…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 15, 2023Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said cases against Dr Muhammad Yunus had been filed by employees of his organisations, not by the government. “One cannot be above the law just because if he is a Nobel Laureate,” he said this while responding to a question at a media briefing at the foreign ministry yesterday. The foreign minister said since these cases were pending in court, the government…
AFP report, September 15, 2023DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced two leading human rights activists to two years each in jail, after a trial critics say is part of a government crackdown ahead of elections. Adilur Rahman Khan, 63, and Nasiruddin Elan, 57, have led the Odhikar organisation for decades, working to document thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances of opposition activists, and police brutalities. They “were sentenced to two years in prison”,…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 15, 2023The government of Bangladesh has expressed its “utter disappointment” at the adoption of a resolution by the European Parliament on Thursday on the “Human rights situation in Bangladesh, notably the case of Odhikar.” “The timing and language of the joint motion, tabled by some political groups in the European Parliament, for making judgemental comments over sub-judice matters and a court verdict on two Odhikar officials delivered today in Dhaka…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 14, 2023The BNP has planned to hold rallies in 19 districts and organise marches from one district to another this month to realise its one-point demand for election under a non-partisan government, insiders say. Supporters from the adjacent districts will be asked to join these rallies, they add. Members of the party’s standing committee, its highest policymaking body, made a draft of these programmes on Tuesday night and sent…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 14, 2023Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, Swechchasebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal – associate bodies of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – have jointly announced a road march program on September 16 and 17. The protest aims to realize a one-point demand –removal of the current government and appointment of an election-time government, said Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku during a press conference held at the BNP central office in Nayapaltan on…
report in Prothom Alo, Sept 12, 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold several rallies and five road marches in this month as the party then plans to culminate the final movement in October. Sources said the BNP leadership considers September as the final stage of mass campaign ahead of the party’s final movement to topple the government. As part of this, the party will hold a rally in Dhaka on Friday and youth road marches…
REPORT IN The Daily Star, Sept 11, 2023The government is set to extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence by six more months. “Her [Khaleda’s] family has applied to the home ministry to extend the suspension of her jail sentence. I have given my opinion on the application for extending the suspension of her jail sentence by six months on previous conditions. “I sent back the relevant file two days ago along…
Report in The Daily Star, Sept 11, 2023The BNP is going to bring changes in the protest programmes to press home its one-point demand of election under a non-partisan administration. Party sources said this strategy is to make successful its ongoing movement demanding resignation of the government and election under a caretaker government in the coming months. The party has already chalked out some court-centric protest programmes and the front and associate organisations — Chhatra…