Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2015

Bangladesh: Two Opposition Leaders Hanged For War Crimes

Two opposition leaders have been executed in Bangladesh for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were hanged shortly after the president rejected appeals for clemency.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Bangladesh: Japanese Citizen Shot Dead: Second Foreigner Killed In A Week

Police in Bangladesh has confirmed that they have detained four people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week. 

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Video of teenager who was tied up and tortured to death in Bangladesh went viral


The people in Sylhet, Bangladesh, wants justice for 13 - year - old Rajon who was from a poor background, the little boy  dropped out of school to sell vegetables in order to give a helping hand to his family.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Bangladesh: Manhunts on attackers of teen who was beaten to death



Hundreds of people have formed a human chain outside the home of a 13-year-old boy who was beaten to death in Bangladesh to protest the killing, as police hunted for a group of men who lashed the boy to a stake, beat him to death, and put a video of the torture online.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Bangladesh: Another blogger, Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death


Police in Bangladesh has said that a secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-eastern part of the countr.

This is the  third such deadly attack since the start of the year.

Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet, reports say.

Mr Das wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona, a website once moderated by Avijit Roy, himself hacked to death in February.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Bangladesh: About 4 dead and 100 workers trapped as cement factory collapsed


Photo: Shaikh Mohir Uddin

Four people are feared dead, 40 survivors pulled out by rescuers from the  debris after a factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh army, collapsed in the port town of Mongla, 335 km (210 miles) southwest of the capital, Dhaka.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Bangladesh: Protesters denounce the killing of blogger Avijit Roy




Hundreds of protesters have rallied in the Bangladeshi capital to denounce the murder of Avijit Roy a Bangladesh-born American blogger, who was hacked to death outside a university in Dhaka.Students, activists and journalists gathered at Dhaka University on Friday to demand quick police action, a day after the attack on Avijit Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed, who remains in critical condition.