OHCHR Report

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Bangladesh

UN report shows how DGFI, NSI, RAB intimidated journos to blackout brutalities

Journalists further testified to the UN about a general climate of intimidation and pressure from media owners close to the Awami League who did not allow them to freely report on the protests or...

Logo of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: OHCHR
Bangladesh

Human rights violations ongoing even during interim government's tenure: UN Report

Sheikh Hasina. File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Brutal July crackdown by Hasina regime may amount to crimes against humanity: UN report

File photo of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Obaidul Quader's call for violence should never have been made, was a mistake, former cabinet member tells UN

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Bangladesh

UN Report: Summary of main violations, selected recommendations

File photo of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal
Bangladesh

UN report: How Asaduzzaman used BGB as ‘strike force’, wanted more helicopters deployed

Don't nominate for UN peacekeeping any RAB, DGFI, or DB personnel until human rights screening mechanism formed: UN
Bangladesh

Don't nominate for UN peacekeeping any RAB, DGFI, or DB personnel until human rights screening mechanism formed: UN

Read the full UN report on July uprising here
Bangladesh

Read the full UN report on July uprising here

From 16 July to 5 August, law enforcement agencies and activists from the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League were responsible for the deaths of at least 750 people. Photos: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

What led up to the extrajudicial killings on 5 Aug’s ‘March to Dhaka’

Members of the Hindu community stage a demonstration in the capital’s Shahbagh area in August, demanding safety and an end to the alleged vandalism of their homes and temples. File Photo: Foisal Ahmed
Bangladesh

Attacks on Hindu, Ahmadiyya, CHT communities mostly centred political affiliation, suppression of identities: UN

Women protesters, female AL members faced heightened sexual crimes during and after protests: UN
Bangladesh

Women protesters, female AL members faced heightened sexual crimes during and after protests: UN

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
Bangladesh

July uprising: Coordinated extrajudicial killings, torture carried out under direction of political leaders, security officers, says UN rights chief

Kotwali Police Station in Chattogram burns after being torched on 5 August 2024. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Revenge killings continued in aftermath of July protests: UN