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The dictators are long gone, but have left behind their brand of populism
When the constitution of Bangladesh was drafted, the 34-member drafting committee looked into the great texts that emerged from the ideologies of the enlightenment era, namely the US’s Bill of Rights, the Declaration of (...)
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (ML) has strongly condemned and protested the consecutive brutal attack on Hindu religious people in Comilla by reactionary fundamentalist forces making a drama of contempt of Quran.
Reactionary sectarian groups are using religion to carry out barbaric (...)
Radical Socialist condemns in the strongest language the setting of fire on idols and Durga puja pandals, temples, destruction of homes belonging to minority Hindus, killings, in Comilla and other places in Bangladesh over the issue of keeping the Quran underneath an idol in one Durga Puja (...)
Deadly communal violence has broken out in Bangladesh after allegations of the desecration of an Islamic holy book led to dozens of Hindu temples being attacked and police opening fire on a crowd. At least seven people died in the disturbances.
The government deployed paramilitary troops to (...)
SAHR Statement on threat, including inciting violence, against Sultana Kamal by the Hefazat-e-Islam
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of Human Rights Defenders, expresses its serious concern at the demands made by Hefazat-e-Islam, for the immediate arrest, exile from the (...)
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s capital city reeled in shock on Sunday as clues began to flood social media about the privileged backgrounds of the half-dozen attackers believed to have butchered 20 patrons of a restaurant during a bloody siege here late last week.
The six attackers were killed (...)
To combat growing terrorism in Bangladesh the PM’s lament over, ’What kind of Muslims are these people?’ is not enough.
The heinous massacre of innocent men and women peacefully eating their dinner at an up-market café in Dhaka this weekend has at last woken up Sheikh Hasina Wajed to the (...)
Bangladesh has seen a rising tide of violence against both foreigners and locals deemed enemies of extremist Islam over the past year, and done little to quell it.
For many observers of radical Islam, the first reaction to the attack on the diplomatic zone of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, is (...)
First they came for the bloggers, the atheists, the secular intellectuals. Then the three-year murder spree spread to aid workers, minority religions and Muslims who did not want their country reshaped by extremist Islam.
The attack on Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was so frenzied that its (...)
Unless the Hasina government acts, murderous religious fantatics will destroy the moderate Muslim nation.
It has been another bloody week in Bangladesh. A Christian shopkeeper, a Hindu priest and the wife of a prominent anti-terror security official were killed in separate attacks by (...)
Protect the rights to freedom of religion, belief, and expression.
STATEMENT ON ATTACKS ON ATHEISTS, SECULARISTS, AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN BANGLADESH
May 3, 2016
We, the undersigned academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and organizations from Bangladesh and around the world, (...)
Spate of attacks on country’s prominent atheist and gay activists, bloggers and academics engulfs Dhaka.
There is an eerie feeling out on the streets of Bangladesh. To some of the city’s academics, activists and gay community, Dhaka now feels more dangerous than a war zone, after a spate of (...)
Statement by PEN International on the murder of Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: University professor hacked to death
23 April 2016 – The tragic and brutal murder of university professor Rezaul Karim Siddique this morning in the northern Bangladesh district of (...)
The murder of 28-year-old law graduate on Wednesday was the sixth such killing since February 2015.
What can one conclude from Wednesday’s murder of 28-year-old law graduate Nazimuddin Samad who was hacked to death by assailants in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, bringing to six the total (...)
Stand with Nazim, put an end to religious extremism
Dhaka Tribune - 8 April 2016
Editorial
The murder of Jagannath University Masters student Nazimuddin Samad by assailants we have strong reason to believe were religious extremists was a most despicable crime committed in cold blood, and (...)
As Bangladesh court reaffirms Islam as state religion, secularism hangs on to a contradiction.
Bangladesh’s avowedly secular Awami League government, the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and the fundamentalist group Hefazat-e-Islam have almost nothing in common.
Yet, the drama this week over a (...)
In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.
Until he was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife and forced to flee to Europe two years ago, Asif Mohiuddin was a leading member of (...)
To Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President Abdul Hamid,
We, concerned members of the blogging and activist community of Bangladesh and internationally, along with representatives of human rights organisations and other civil society organisations and supporters, wish to protest in the (...)
Unidentified assailants entered an apartment building and hacked a 40-year-old blogger to death in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday, police and friends said.
Niloy Chowdhury who ran his Facebook page as Niloy Neel was found dead after at least five assailants posing as potential tenants looking (...)
A Bangladeshi blogger and secular activist who was hacked to death on Tuesday would still be alive if Sweden had not blocked his planned visit to Stockholm this month to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, according to the Swedish chapter of PEN, an international writers group.
The Swedish (...)
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