The government has banned Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and all its associate bodies as political party and organizations in the country.
Home Ministry's Public Security Division issued a gazette notification in this regard today.
According to the gazette notification, as the political party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir along with its all associate organizations were banned under clause 18(1) of the Anti-...
Bangladesh says it wants to see that the leading UN entity on human rights does not align with the internationally financed and mobilized smear campaign being conducted against the country’s security and law enforcement agencies with the ulterior motive of creating political and social upheaval in the country.
“It would be regrettable if the OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) were to be considered to be aligning with the internationally financed and mobilized smear campaign….,” an official source told UNB, quoting a diplomatic communication with UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk this week, reports UNB.
On July 23, Türk wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noting that in these challenging times, his office is ready to support her efforts in resolving the cur...
Expressing concerns about the impact of social media, Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan remarked that it has become a dangerous business. His comments came during the hearing of a contempt of court case involving seven top lawyers of the BNP on Thursday, according to media reports.
"Husband-wife quarrels now also come to Facebook. Saying something again raises the question of rights to freedom," the Chief Justice noted, highlighting the increasingly public nature of personal disputes and the complexities surrounding freedom of expression on social media platforms.
The court session saw Advocate Zainul Abedin and Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon representing the BNP leaders. When pro-BNP lawyers accused the media of distorting their statements, Chief Justice Hassan defended the medi...
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haq on Thursday said the miscreants, who killed people and destroyed the state property through arson attacks and terrorism, will be brought to book quickly.
"The attackers have already been identified . . . they will be brought to justice quickly", he said, reports BSS.
He made the comments while addressing as the chief guest a human chain formed by the "Muktijoddhar Sontan O Prajanmo Samannay Parishad" in front of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) in the city protesting the killing of people, anarchy, arson attack and destruction of the government properties by BNP-Jamaat.
"The main objective of BNP-Jamaat was to overthrow the government by capitalizing on the students' movement," the minister said.
Former shipping minister and valian...
The six coordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement who were taken into DB custody have been released.
The six coordinators were freed from DB custody around 1:30 pm on Thursday.
Rifat Rashid, one of the coordinators, confirmed their release in a Facebook post.
Law Minister Anisul Huq told reporters at the secretariat today that the quota protest coordinators left DB office this afternoon.
"It is also true that they had sought security from us. A GD was also filed in this regard. Now they say they don't need security anymore, when they expressed their desire to leave, we did not obstruct them. They have gone. “
The DB took six key coordinators-Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud, Abu Bakar Mojumdar, Sarjess Alam, Hasnat Abdullah, and Nusrat Tabassum- into custody on July 27...
The coordinators in a statement released today (2 August) said, we did not voluntarily give the video statement broadcast from the DB office withdrawing the movement. No decision on the anti-discrimination student movement can come from the DB office.
They emphasised, "No decision will be made without consulting all coordinators and the agitating student...
