Those responsible must pay for their crime

Jasmine Sultana’s case must not meet the same fate as countless others

US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion “worked like a tonic”, rights activists said yesterday as the number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances dropped significantly in the last year.

Extrajudicial killings is appealing to people who feel their justice system will fail them.

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

Government must allow impartial investigation into rights abuse allegations

It was a sombre occasion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity premises on April 30.

Law enforcers must be more careful so that extrajudicial killings do not take place, the High Court warned yesterday. “Everyone must be given the legal protection provided by the law,” it said.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday defended crossfire deaths saying the law enforcement agencies opened fire during the anti-narcotics drives only in self-defence.

According to human rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, last year witnessed the highest number of extrajudicial killings recorded in our country's history. Other serious human rights abuses such as enforced disappearances also continued throughout 2018.

BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman demands a judicial investigation into the “extrajudicial killings” carried out by law enforcers during the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotic operation.

The European Union (EU) Delegation in Dhaka urges the authorities concerned to investigate all incidents involving the deaths of alleged criminal suspects in Bangladesh with due processes.

"There were quite a few cadres (armed goons) and hoodlums in Savar. Now the situation is still as water. No one dares to utter a word. I have put five persons to cross fire and have prepared the list of another 14."

A regional leader of an outlawed party and his aide are killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district. Acting on a tip-off that Rakibul was holding a meeting with his cohorts at Rakhalgachi char, two Rab teams cordoned off the area around 3:30am and asked the outlaws to surrender using loudspeakers.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said trials of extrajudicial killings must be held if any complaint is lodged with a court in this regard.

Police say these two men, killed in alleged gunfight with detectives, said to have taken part in the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee and the bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Bogra.

An alleged robber has been killed in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police at Shashai on the Dhaka-Shylhet highway.

An outlaw has been killed in what police say gunfight in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

Bullet-riddled body of a college student was recovered ten days after he was allegedly abducted by unidentified people from Jhenidah.

An alleged dacoit has been killed in what police described as gunfight at Shalikha upazila of Magura.