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  Dhaka University student picked up by ‘DB police’

  Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 12:59pm on July 26, 2020

  A Dhaka University master’s student remained missing after a group of people identifying themselves as Detective Branch members picked him up from his village home...

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  Picked journalism graduate returns home after 22hrs

  Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 10:34am on June 11, 2020

  A 30-year-old journalism graduate, who was picked up from his house by a group of people introducing as ‘Detective Branch’ on a SUV on Wednesday,...

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  Citizens worried over arrests, disappearances

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:51am on May 07, 2020

  Different political parties, human rights organisations and several hundred citizens in separate statements on Wednesday voiced grave concerns over the arrests of several human rights...

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  Police yet to trace journalist Kajol

  Muktadir Rashid  | Updated at 05:52pm on April 01, 2020

  The police have yet to trace out photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol who has been missing since March 10...

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  Amnesty International releases footage of journalist Shafiqul’s last known whereabouts

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 22, 2020

  Unidentified people approached journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol’s motorbike and appear to tamper with it, the day he was last seen before what is feared to...

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  Police probe into journalist’s disappearance stalled: RSF

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:14am on March 18, 2020

  The Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday called on the Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that Shafiqul Kajol, a journalist who remained missing for the past week,...

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  A well-meaning court order that has lied ignored for years

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 15, 2020

  THE continuance of arrest without warrants or on suspicion, interrogation and detention without adherence to the 19-point directives that the court earlier issued for the...

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  Top Bangladesh court concerned as guidelines on disappearance, arrest flouted

  M Moneruzzaman | Updated at 11:56pm on February 13, 2020

  The Appellate Division on Thursday expressed its disappointment as the law-enforcement agencies continued arresting without warrant flouting its guidelines to follow when they deal with...

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  Disappearance day of Zahir Raihan today

  Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on January 30, 2020

  Today is the 48th disappearance day of late eminent filmmaker, writer and freedom fighter Zahir Raihan. Different organisations will pay tribute to Zahir Raihan organising...

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  Rights abuses go unabated in Bangladesh as NHRC bypasses mandate

  Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 12:19am on December 10, 2019

  Enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings and custodial torture go unabated in the country with the National Human Rights Commission busy dealing with crimes of general nature,...