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Alarming human rights situation in 2014, says ASK

The human rights situation in Bangladesh was alarming in 2014, says an annual report published by Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK). ain-o-salish-kendraAt least 88 people became victims of forced disappearance this year. Twelve of them returned while bodies of 23 were found later, Ain o Salish Kendra Executive Director Sultana Kamal said on Wednesday while placing the report on human rights situation of the country. Two people were sent to jail on different charges while the rests’ whereabouts were not known, she told reporte...

Let the speech be free in Turkey  

Though the Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that his country has the freest press in the world, but according to the International Committee to Protect Journalists, a global press freedom organization, Turkey was the world’s top jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013, ahead of Iran and China. rise-in-violence-for-journalists-in-south-asia-press-freedomErdogan on Friday brushed off accusations that media freedoms were being ero...

Organ trade unabated, targeting children, poor

Five days after his kidnapping, the body of 6-year-old Harun-ur-Rashid was discovered dumped in wetlands near Sirajganj, north of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. The child’s kidneys were cut out — a victim of the country’s black market organ trade. organ tradeAfter Harun disappeared from the village of Tebaria on April 22, the boy’s father, Abdul Hannan, feared the worst and contacted authorities. One arrested suspect told police Harun was drugged before being taken under a bridge where three waiting men had arrived from Dhaka. The susp...

Acid attacks: What India should learn from Bangladesh

The Indian capital witnessed yet another goring incident of acid being hurled at a 30-year-old woman doctor by two motorcycle-borne assailants’ yesterday in Rajouri Garden. acid vcitimThe lady, employed with Employees State Insurance (ESI) hospital, was attacked around 9.30 a.m. and rushed to AIIMS. The victim suffered 45 percent burn, on her face and head, and is reported to be out of danger. Ironically, the incident has come at the time when the victim was prepping to step up into her marital life in next four months. Around 90-...

Christmas carols competition to keep kids away from drugs

MAGIS (Marching and Growing in Solidarity) Bangla, a Jesuit-run youth group, held a singing Christmas carols competition on 13 December in Dhaka with the purpose of teaching children and kids to stay away from all forms of addiction. BANGLADESH_-_canti_natale_Some 13 groups took part in this year’s edition, which was won by the Francis Xavier School for Girls in Luxmibazarm, an old district in the capital. Recently, some Christians died, apparently from intoxication, after drinking local wine. In view of...

Concern over ‘curbing’ freedom of expression

Fifty-one scholars, writers and activists from home and abroad have expressed deep concern over the use of contempt of court law in curbing freedom of expression. rise-in-violence-for-journalists-in-south-asia-press-freedomIn a joint statement released globally on Friday, they also expressed concern over the recent conviction and sentencing of journalist David Bergman by the International Crimes Tribunal 2 on charges of contempt of court. ...
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