Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed, an international rights group said Thursday. Amid heightened political tensions, the Human Rights Watch report was released only days after a high profile government critic briefly disappeared. HRW said Bangladeshi authorities have detained hundreds of people in secret … Read more
A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh’s elite security forces, wounding two others, in an apparent botched suicide attack. The incident came a day after a series of raids on suspected militant hideouts in the troubled country, which has suffered a series of Islamist attacks in recent years. Home Minister … Read more
A court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has issued the arrest warrant Sunday for 22 opposition men including several leaders in a case filed for creating subversive activities in Dhaka in February last year. Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court issued the arrest warrant against Barkatullah Bulu, vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), … Read more