The following is the U.S. State Department’s assessment of Bangladesh’s human rights record over the course of the last year. Without pulling any punches, at lenght: “Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and were responsible for custodial deaths, torture, and arbitrary arrest and detention. The failure to investigate fully extrajudicial killings by security forces, including several […]
Earlier this year the government began to formulate plans to set up a separate police force to monitor the four separate industrial zones in Bangladesh. The plan was put into play this month with somber fanfare. The Industrial police force, (an unfortunately titled cadre of security officers; one imagines police officers kitted out in metallic […]
The High Court declared today that the provocative Crossfire Exhibition must be allowed to reopen. Eight days after the politically charged exhibition was shut down by the police deployed to the Drik Gallery, the High Curts decision now compels the police to withdraw, thereby removing all obstruction to the conduct and proceedings of the exhibition. […]