Custodial deaths

Reform key to curbing custodial deaths

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.
8 February 2026, 19:20 PM

Address, not dismiss, human rights violations

ASK report paints disturbing picture of first six months of 2024
6 July 2024, 07:00 AM

Investigate Alal’s custodial death

Those responsible must pay for their crime
18 June 2023, 12:00 PM

Sanctions on Rab ‘worked like a tonic’

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.
10 December 2022, 01:00 AM

How did Sumon Sheikh die?

His family deserves transparent investigation into his death in police custody
22 August 2022, 21:45 PM

Barguna custodial death: Suspended Amtali inspector sued

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.
2 April 2020, 07:19 AM

Breaking of spirits and bones

Forty-four years since independence, must we remain a caricature of a dysfunctional, postcolonial state where law enforcers...
9 December 2015, 18:00 PM