Around 5:00pm on June 20, Istiak Ahmed Pranto stepped out of his house in Faridpur’s Madhukhali. Moments later, a team from the Detective Branch (DB) of police detained the Faridpur Law College student. By the next morning, he was dead.

Family alleges Debashish Chowdhury was falsely implicated

At least 39 inmates died in prisons across the country in the first three months of this year, according to a quarterly human rights monitoring report by the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS).

Police recovered the 27-year-old’s body early Friday

The family of the woman, who died in Jashore police custody on Sunday morning, locked their house and moved to a relative’s home after the incident, said a neighbour.

A woman died in police custody in Jashore's Abhaynagar upazila yesterday morning, hours after she was picked up from her residence

Those responsible must pay for their crime