Annual Report 2012
The state of the world's human rights

Bangladesh

Human Rights in PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

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Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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Bangladesh: Authorities must account for deaths amid spate of ...
24 April 2012

Two men were killed in clashes between protesters and police amid a spate of disappearances in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh: Authorities must account for deaths amid spate of ...
24 April 2012

Fatalities during protests about the disappearance of a key opposition figure seven days ago in Bangladesh must be thoroughly investigated by the authorities, Amnesty ...

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Bangladesh: Authorities must account for deaths amid spate of ...
24 April 2012

Two men were killed in clashes between protesters and police amid a spate of disappearances in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh: Further information: Authorities told to respond about ...
20 February 2012

Two student opposition activists in Bangladesh, Al Mukaddas and Mohammad Waliullah, are still missing after they were allegedly detained by security forces on 4 ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/002/2012

Bangladesh: Student activists at risk of torture
13 February 2012

Two student opposition activists in Bangladesh, Al Mukaddas and Mohammad Waliullah, have been missing since 4 February. Eyewitnesses saw them being detained by ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/001/2012

Torture video shows need to protect Bangladeshis crossing India ...
20 January 2012

The suspension of eight guards of India's Border Security Force (BSF) for torturing a Bangladeshi caught on the border is not a sign that human rights violations ...

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Bangladesh: Further information: Minister must protect human ...
2 November 2011

Bangladesh's State Minister for Women's and Children's Affairs has told Amnesty International that police are investigating threats against woman human rights defender ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/011/2011

Bangladesh: Woman human rights defender at serious risk, Shampa ...
27 October 2011

On 23 October, woman human rights defender Shampa Goswami was threatened by a gang of men in Satkhira town, in Bangladesh's south western Satkhira district, after ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/010/2011

Bangladesh: Man abducted in Bangladesh
7 October 2011

KM Shamim Akhter, former vice-president of a left wing student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra Union, was abducted by men in plain clothes suspected of being ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/009/2011