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Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances

New Delhi: An inquiry commission in Bangladesh said on Saturday that former premier Sheikh Hasina and some officials of security forces and her government were involved in enforced disappearances. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks her watch as she waits for the official opening time to cast her vote in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 7 The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced …

India Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Hasina Commission Enforced Yunus

1 week, 4 days ago

Report names former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina in disappearances, recommends RAB shutdown

India Today

In a significant development, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance has presented its interim findings, implicating former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and several senior officials in incidents of enforced disappearances. The report names several individuals allegedly involved, including: Former Defence Adviser: Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique Former Director General of NTMC: Sacked Major General Ziaul Ahsan Senior Police Officers: …

Prime Minister Report Commission Chowdhury Enforced Disappearances Rab Disappearances

3 months ago

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The students were attacked by security forces linked to …

Students Investigation Administration Case Mexico Guerrero Iguala

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bangladesh’s government led by Yunus signs UN convention involving enforced disappearance

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s interim government on Thursday signed the instrument of accession to an international convention of the United Nations aiming at preventing enforced disappearances as a state party, authorities said. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who took over this month as head of the government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country to India …

Bangladesh Hasina Led Forced Disappearance Security Forces Enforced Disappearance

11 months ago

Resolving the Baloch issue is in Pakistan’s political and economic interest

Al Jazeera

Treating what is going in the province of Balochistan as a security matter only is the wrong approach. When asked about the Baloch people who had been protesting in the Pakistani capital, demanding government action on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, Kakar became visibly angry. For decades, the civilian and military rulers of Pakistan have presented the Baloch issue as …

Political Rights Natural Resources Issue Province Pakistani Balochistan

1 year, 3 months ago

Thousands protest over Bangladesh's 'enforced disappearances'

The Hindu

Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters marched on August 30 demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies joined families of those missing to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, many with black gags …

Security Bangladesh Hasina Security Forces Enforced Disappearances

1 year, 3 months ago

Former official under Belarus President Lukashenko to face Swiss trial over enforced disappearances

Associated Press

GENEVA — A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s, rights groups said Wednesday. Activists called it a “watershed moment” in international justice that could trigger prosecutions abroad of other Belarus officials — including Lukashenko, whose regime has …

International Trial Belarus Switzerland Lukashenko Political Opponents Belarusian

1 year, 5 months ago

Mexican armed forces facilitated Ayotzinapa disappearances: Panel

Al Jazeera

An independent investigatory panel says security forces obstructed their efforts to investigate human the rights scandal. An independent panel investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students has issued a final report, implicating the country’s security forces but offering few definitive answers about the students’ fate. “They all collaborated to make them disappear,” GIEI panel member Carlos Beristain told …

Students Mexico Mexican Panel Forces Security Forces Lopez Obrador

3 years ago

Bangladesh protests US sanctions against top security officers

Firstpost

Washington has imposed sanctions against the Rapid Action Battalion, which is accused of involvement in hundreds of disappearances and nearly 600 extrajudicial killings since 2018 Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh on Saturday called in the US ambassador to protest sanctions by Washington against its top security officers after seven people including the country’s national police chief were accused by the Biden administration …

Human Rights Rights Bangladesh Washington Human Security Officers Rab

3 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh disputes study into alleged forced disappearances

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Wednesday disputed a Human Rights Watch investigation into disappearances of government critics and others as built on questionable, uncorroborated allegations that security forces were involved. She added in the statement that the study “conflates” what could be kidnappings with “government- Shahriar said Bangladesh investigates every reported disappearance, but that it “cannot, logistically or legally, give …

Rights Bangladesh Human Rights Watch Security Forces Disappearances Forced Disappearances

3 years, 4 months ago

UN urged to probe alleged disappearances in Bangladesh

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A global human rights group urged the United Nations on Monday to lead an independent investigation into the alleged disappearances of government critics and others at the hands of security forces in Bangladesh, an allegation the country’s government has long denied. “Bangladesh authorities mock victims and routinely obstruct investigations, making clear that the government has no intention …

Rights Human Rights Watch Security Forces Enforced Disappearances Disappearances Bangladesh Authorities

3 years, 9 months ago

Ending Pakistan’s epidemic of enforced disappearances

Al Jazeera

In February 2020, Haseeba Qambrani, a young woman living in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, received chilling news: Her brother Hassan and cousin Hizbullah had gone missing. Several organisations, including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, have confirmed that the security forces are the primary suspects behind …

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Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances

Report names former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina in disappearances, recommends RAB shutdown

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

Bangladesh’s government led by Yunus signs UN convention involving enforced disappearance

Resolving the Baloch issue is in Pakistan’s political and economic interest

Thousands protest over Bangladesh's 'enforced disappearances'

Former official under Belarus President Lukashenko to face Swiss trial over enforced disappearances

Mexican armed forces facilitated Ayotzinapa disappearances: Panel

Bangladesh protests US sanctions against top security officers

Bangladesh disputes study into alleged forced disappearances

UN urged to probe alleged disappearances in Bangladesh

Ending Pakistan’s epidemic of enforced disappearances