Government officials will face death penalty or minimum life sentence if found guilty of causing the death of enforced disappearance victims, according to a draft ordinance unveiled yesterday.

Justice must be ensured for the victims of this heinous crime.

Hasina's direct involvement in enforced disappearance allowed the crime to continue for so long.

Human rights lawyer Taqbir Huda talks about the current state of human rights in Bangladesh and the potential way forward.

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), at least 623 people were victims of enforced disappearance in the country from 2009 to 2022.

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

If it had not been for the student’s uprising, the heaviness of the pain for many in a similar situation would not have been relieved.

After years of denial by the authorities, chilling details about secret prisons are now emerging as victims of enforced disappearances begin to speak out after their release following the dramatic fall of Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year regime.

On the evening of December 4, 2017, around 6:45pm, M Maroof Zaman, former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam, was on his way from his Dhanmondi home to receive his daughter at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Five new incidents of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh were reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in the last one year.