Saturday’s violence may only be a premonition of much worse days to come

A Dhaka court today sent 12 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed over the crude bomb blast in front of the party's Nayapaltan central office on December 3.

Police have filed a case against 54 people in connection with a clash with BNP men in Gazipur yesterday (October 10, 2022).

Mass arrests and police raids of opposition party members’ homes raise serious concerns about violence and intimidation ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh due next year, Human Rights Watch said today (October 10, 2022).

Police filed a case against 2,000 people in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila yesterday, after some 40 people were hurt in a clash between the law enforcers and BNP activists on Thursday.

Police arrested six Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal men for their alleged involvement in the November 14 clash with law enforcers in front of the BNP central office in Nayapaltan.

Senior BNP leaders Mirza Abbas and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi are among the 488 people accused of attempting to foil the upcoming parliamentary polls in three cases.

The peaceful electoral atmosphere that prevailed in the country for the last two weeks was suddenly marred by yesterday's clash between BNP activists and police in front of the party's Naya Paltan central office.

BNP asks its activists and supporters to calm down and remain peaceful around its central office following clashes.