The reality of 24-year-old law student Istiak Ahmed Pranto’s death in police custody demands much more than a police probe

At least three people died in custody and in incidents described as gunfights in June, according to a monthly human rights report by the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS).

Human rights campaigners have called for a radical change to how Bangladesh investigates allegations of torture and custodial deaths, saying that the current flawed system allows the police to investigate themselves.

Earlier this week, the death of a young man in police custody in Faridpur raised allegations of torture by agitated locals.

The prisons have been overcrowded for quite some time now. The Operation Devil Hunt, launched on February 8, 2025, alone led to at least 86,000 arrests, as per a recent Human Rights Watch report.

ASK report paints disturbing picture of first six months of 2024

Those responsible must pay for their crime

US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion “worked like a tonic”, rights activists said yesterday as the number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances dropped significantly in the last year.

His family deserves transparent investigation into his death in police custody

A case is filed against suspended inspector (investigation) of Amtali Police Station, Manoranjan Mistry, in connection with the death of a man at the police station on March 27.

Forty-four years since independence, must we remain a caricature of a dysfunctional, postcolonial state where law enforcers...