Members of Rapid Action Battalion conducted a drive in Gazipur on Tuesday night and arrested a man who they said embezzled money after hacking credit cards and buying cryptocurrency bitcoin.

A Cumilla court yesterday sent four men to jail on charge of gang-raping a mentally challenged woman in the district’s Homna upazila.

Nur Hossain, an accused in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in another case filed under the arms act.

Robbers carried out acid attack on a security guard and stabbed another after failing to rob a bank in Bogura’s Gabtali upazila early yesterday.

A Madaripur court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a seven-year-old girl after rape on November 27, 2012.

A 30-year-old student of law died in custody four days after he was arrested by the Detective Branch of police in Barisal.

The incidents of rape and violence against women this year were more than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said yesterday.

SAF

While work continues on many fronts to combat child sexual abuse, the unfortunate reality on the ground is that on average, three children are being raped in Bangladesh each day, according to statistics of the Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum.

“Bring out Adnan*!” the social worker in charge of the government orphanage instructed an attendant. A woman sitting across the desk from her, shifted in her seat.

The #metoo movement and the recent sharing of numerous stories of sexual abuse in Bangladesh and across the world have brought home to us what we already knew – that women and girls (men and boys too, but mostly women and girls) are commonly subjected to various forms of sexual abuse throughout their lives.

Physical signs of sexual abuse

For children on the streets, exploitation, abuse, and neglect is just an everyday affair. And overlooking them, is a part of our everyday affair.

By the time she was a young adult, she had started to show the first signs of anxiety, rebellion (cue the dating older men, being too ready, almost too eager to be in bed with them), then not wanting to have sex altogether in adulthood, going from straight As to straight fails—she carried these childhood struggles through adulthood.

Play is an integral companion of childhood. Little brains grow with the help of their play time, learning colours and creativity, allowing children to better understand themselves and their world.

It was a cold winter night. Some 75 freedom fighters were deftly making their way in a quiet village called Betiara; only the whooshing sound of breeze blowing through bamboo bushes and trees and the chirping of insects were disturbing the eerie silence.

“…Then after dark, a tentative ‘Joy Bangla’ in the back streets. Older men came out and persuaded the lads back into their homes; ‘there is still a curfew’. Then a more determined ‘Joy Bangla’. The Mukti Bahini had taken over the streets.

By June of 1971, Pakistani forces had occupied most of Rajshahi district’s key installations and were expanding their control to remote areas through mass killings, rape and burning villages.

The tin shack was almost hidden behind a bush. A thick canopy of mango and coconut trees kept it under a blissful shade. Behind its backyard was a wide canal that separated it from the rest of the village.

An alleged drug dealer has been killed in “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Hajaribagh area of Dhaka.