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Bangladesh: Further information on Fear for Safety: Members of the ...
16 February 2006

On 10 February, the Bangladeshi security forces prevented members of the Islamist group, the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement (IKNM) from holding a rally at ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/002/2006

Bangladesh: Fear for Safety: Members of the Ahmadiyya community in ...
7 February 2006

An Islamist group has threatened to organise a rally in order to place a placard denouncing the Ahmadiyya religious community outside the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/001/2006

Bangladesh: Further information on death threats
21 December 2005

Journalists Samaresh Baiddya (m), Sumi Khan (f), Zubair Siddiqui (m), Abul Momen (m), Farok Iqbal (m), Biswajeet Chowdhury, Anjan Kumer Sen (m), Ali Abbas (m) and ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/017/2005

Bangladesh: Human rights defenders in Bangladesh under attack
9 December 2005

Journalists and activists in Bangladesh who expose human rights abuses, violations and corruption are frequently targets of attacks, intimidation and harassment ...

ActionDocument       ASA 13/011/2005

Bangladesh: Human Rights Defenders Project: Probir Sikdar
14 November 2005

In 2001, journalist Probir Sikdar was attacked with a long knife and shot by a group of men believed to have been hired by an alleged criminal about whom he had ...

Report       ASA 13/014/2005

Bangladesh: Human Rights Defenders Project: Nazmul Imam
17 October 2005

Nazmul Imam wrote reports about the activities of a criminal gang and a member of parliament and also about a local gang leader alleged to have received protection ...

Report       ASA 13/013/2005

Bangladesh: Harassment of leaders of the indigenous people
12 October 2005

Amnesty International is concerned about reports that four leaders of Bangladesh's indigenous populations have become the targets of official harassment and intimidation ...

Report       ASA 13/010/2005

Bangladesh: Medical concern: Suresh Chandra Halder (m)
12 September 2005

There are growing concerns for the health of Suresh Chandra Halder, former General Secretary of the Association for Village Advancement, a non-governmental organization ...

Urgent Action       ASA 13/009/2005

Bangladesh: Human Rights Defenders Project: Sheikh Belaluddin ...
4 September 2005

Sheikh Belaluddin, a renowned journalist and prominent member of the Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was severely injured in a bomb attack in February 2005. He ...

Report       ASA 13/015/2005

Bangladesh: Human rights defenders under attack
22 August 2005

This report highlights the abuses human rights defenders face, and the patterns of activities that place them at risk of either harassment, arrest and torture, ...

Report       ASA 13/004/2005