The government has finally responded to the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances for the first time in 26 years.

A parliamentary body has blamed the foreign ministry behind US sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and its officials.

There is no scope for repealing the sanctions against Rab, without concrete actions and accountability, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas said today.

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

A man was killed in, what Rab says, a "gunfight" with the force members in Manikganj early today.

Describing elite force Rab as a “brand name for peace” in villages, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today (April 17, 2022) said this institution should not be maligned which helped the country contain militancy.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested Ashish Roy Chowdhury, a fugitive for 24 years accused in a case filed over the murder of film actor Sohel Chowdhury in December 1998.

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.

Cellebrite, an Israel-based digital intelligence firm, has decided to halt sales to Bangladesh, stating its concern that the tools might lead to violation of human rights. According to recent reports by Haaretz, the longest-running newspaper of Israel, Cellebrite’s "hardware was reportedly used by a paramilitary unit accused of extrajudicial killings, torture and disappearances of civilians and journalists."

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested the leader of fraud gang, who had been misappropriating money from mobile banking users, from Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested three human traffickers in a drive at Khilgaon in Dhaka as they were planning to send some Rohingyas abroad illegally.

Law enforcers arrest BNP Vice-chairman Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed from Dhaka Airport.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) files two separate cases against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat with Ramna Police Station under firearms and narcotics control acts.

Three people, described as drug peddlers by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), are killed in an alleged gunfight in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a man along with 3,840 yaba pills from Brahmanbaria town.

Rab seized about 340 grams of cocaine worth an estimated Tk 2 crore from an inter-city bus in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Sunday and arrested two people in this connection, said a press release issued by the elite force.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Dhaka jails three people for differed terms and fined Tk five lakh each for buying, reserving and marketing contaminated medicine for cancer.

Two men were killed in separate “gunfights” in Gazipur and Bogura early yesterday.

The Rab has arrested seven members of a gang which used to “deceive people” in the name of selling Saudi Riyal at half price.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) fines four restaurants Tk 4 lakh in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area for keeping food items in ”unhygienic condition”.