In preparation for a community information session that he will conduct in the near future, JM 2010 Shahanur Islam recently republished a brochure about human rights standards in Bangladesh. As the head of the...
The city of Medellín has a long and complicated history of conflict. Several of the problems that it still faces today are paramilitary control and militarization, the resulting armed political militias, territorial gang...
In his continuing bid to end torture in Bangladesh, JusticeMaker Shahanur Islam Saikot, has offered legal aid to ethnic and racial minorities in and around Dhaka. His latest case is the story of Shila...
During a routine visit to Rwanda’s Gitarama central prison – considered one of the most overcrowded prisons on earth – the IBJ team of lawyers met with a demobilized soldier detained since 2007. To...
On October 6, 2010, Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Badal was arrested by the Drug Control Directorate police of the Ramna zone in the Dhaka metropolitan area. He was detained on the charge of being an...
2010 Asia JusticeMakers Fellow from Bangladesh Adv. Shahanur Islam has completed preparations on training materials on torture and human rights. Mr. Shahanur, who is also the executive director of the Bangladesh Institute of Human...
"When Madu went to the police station the next day she was assaulted with a cricket pole and told to plead guilty. They took her signature on a written statement by force. The statement...
On Wednesday September 22, 2010, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) Dhaka issued a warrant for the arrest of four police officers, prominent among them former Ramna officer-in-charge Mahbubur Rahman. The officers are accused...
"Dotee admitted her child to a Government hospital where she was treated for four days. The JMO refrained from examining her ear wounds saying that only the other sexual matter was relevant. When Dotee...
Today, there is no doubt that torture and ill treatments are related in many ways to poverty disrespect of ESC Rights. The author agrees with many papers that argue that the poor, excluded and...
