It is now irrefutably evident that Sheikh Hasina’s despotic regime systematically weaponised enforced disappearance as a ruthless tool of political repression.

The current government must also identify those who have been killed during their disappearances.

Never did I imagine that I would be a victim of enforced disappearance one day.

Commission on enforced disappearances must provide answer, justice

Their families deserve answer, justice, and closure

Government must protect rights workers from intimidation and legal persecution

Usually, one sees the families of the victims of enforced disappearances demanding their loved ones be returned. But in a rare occurrence, the survivors came to the fore at a programme yesterday to narrate the ordeals they went through.

No credible and independent investigation has so far been carried out into any of the alleged incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh.

The government is looking into the cases of 28 victims of enforced disappearance, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said today.

Government must act on rising allegations of enforced disappearances

Government decision to engage in expatriate diplomacy to tackle negative propaganda raises a lot of questions.

“How are our loved ones? Are they eating well? Are they being tortured? Are they… alive?”

While their families search every alleyway, survivors say that they lived right around the corner in the capital city. 

UN human rights chief's visit to Dhaka revealed contrasting expectations on the part of the government and rights groups.

If we want to stop being lectured by international bodies, then we as a people, and much more so our government, must listen to our own critical voices.

When Bangladesh needs to show that it has been listening to the concerns about respecting human rights and upholding the rule of law, it has done quite the opposite.

Justice for the victims of enforced disappearance must be ensured

Rapid Action Battalion today rejected allegation of the force's involvement in BNP leader Ilias Ali’s disappearance as "baseless". 

Dear Reehan Rahman, My father, photojournalist and editor Shafiqul Islam Kajol, was added to the list of hundreds of Bangladeshi victims of enforced disappearance on March 10, 2020.

The family of a pisciculturist, who allegedly became a victim of enforced disappearance, has claimed that the last known location of his iPhone, found using an application, was adjacent to the Rab-1 office in the capital’s Uttara.