BNP expressed satisfaction with the UN fact-finding report on the July-August uprising

Human rights office also finds systematic abuse by former ministers, security agency officials, AL leaders

Several senior officials gave crucial information to the UN Fact Finding Mission about Sheikh Hasina’s actions during the July uprising.

The UN will not share evidence from its investigation with Bangladesh unless trials of perpetrators of the brutal response to the July uprising meet international standards, says a top official at the UN Human Rights Office.

The UN has recommended prompt and independent investigations into human rights violations that took place from August 5 to 15 last year after the fall of Sheikh Hasina.

He reiterated the interim government's commitment to upholding the rule of law and called on all members of Bangladesh's justice system

UN estimates that "as many as 1,400 people may have been killed" in that 45-day time period, while thousands were injured

.High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is expected to launch the report in Geneva

The submission window will remain open from February 11 to February 25

The interim government is bound to fail as it does not have the spirit of the July uprising in it, said columnist and writer Farhad Mazhar yesterday.

Taxes also waived on physicians' hotel accommodation, food, and airfares

It feels wrong in myriad ways to say that hope isn’t there when an autocrat fell

Bangladesh's police force has had a history marked by violence, oppression, and a lack of trust.

The interim government has taken the initiative to prepare a declaration of the July uprising based on national consensus.

Standing on the isthmus of change, we must avoid any form of myopia.

The adviser stresses the need for reforms for which people came out and ousted 'fascist' Awami League government

Bangladesh's hard-won independence, achieved through the Liberation War in 1971, remains the most defining political event in our history.

Salman Hossain, a student of Titumir College, sustained bullet injuries on a leg during the July uprising.

The interim government’s stated goal of establishing a liberal democracy may be overly idealistic given Bangladesh’s current social and political landscape.

Saidul Islam, a 25-year-old from Dashmina upazila in Patuakhali, once dreamed of building a stable life for his family. But the light of that dream has been extinguished -- both figuratively and literally.