awami brutality june 2010
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Qamaruzzaman, Kader arrestedStaff Correspondent
The police on Tuesday arrested the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islamis senior assistant secretary
general Qamaruzzaman and assistant secretary general Abdul Kader Mollah in a case filed in
http://www.newagebd.com/2010/jul/14/front.html#1
Mahmudur Rahman 'shown arrested' in ACC case
Independent Online
Dhaka, Jul 13: A Dhaka court has ordered Mahmudur Rahman, the
detained acting editor of the newspaper Amar Desh, to be shown
arrested in an ACC case filed for failing to provide a wealth statement.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=182146
Another accused dies in police custody at Nabinagar
Independent Online
Brahmanbaria, Jul 11: Another accused died in police custody at Nabinagar on Sunday,
only six days after the High Court asked the government to constitute a committee toinvestigate custodial deaths.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=181820
7 Shibir men held in Joypurhat
independent Online
Joypurhat, Jul 10: Police in a drive arrested seven leaders and activists of Chhatra Shibir
at Roar village in Akkelpur upazila on Friday night.
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Three top Jamaat leaders taken on four-day remand
Independent Online
DHAKA, Jul 10: The arrested three top Jamaat-e- Islami leaders were produced beforethe court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka today.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-07-10&nid=181642
Plea to stay remand of Jamaat trio rejected
STAFF REPORTERA Dhaka court yesterday rejected three separate petitions requesting the staying of remand of the threetop ranking Jamaat-e-Islami leaders - Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Delwar
Hossain Sayedee in three cases filed with different city police stations.
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Police bar BNP's human chain programme
Independent Online
Dhaka, Jul 7: Police obstructed the BNP leaders and activists to form
their human chain programme this morning at different parts in thecapital.
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One killed, more than 100 injured and 100 arrested during BNP's programme
Independent Online
Dhaka, Jul 7: One activist was killed, more than 100 were injured and 100 arrested bypolice during the countrywide human chain organized by BNP today.
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BCL Off The Leash, Still
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Clockwise: Members of a ChhatraLeague faction with iron rods get ready to attack their rivals during a clash between Chhatra League factions at
Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Tanu, a student wounded in the fight, is admitted to DMCH. A cadre
instructs one of his flowers while others carry lethal weapons. The sister of an injured student cries at the
hospital.
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101 more Shibir men held in Ctg
Independent Online
Chittagong, Jul 5: The police have detained 101 more Islami Chhatra
Shibir activists following Sunday's vandalism in Chittagong City.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=180843
Nearly 100 Jamaat men held across the country
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, with bureau reports
July 4: The Chittagong police has detained 40 activists of the Jamaat-Shibir after unruly Jamaat e
Islami cadres went on the rampage vandalising shops and attacking vehicles yesterday afternoon,
protesting the arrest of their top leaders by the police.
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BCL infighting at JU leaves 33 hurt
VC assaulted, BCL suspends JU unit, expels 13; university suspends 17 students
Injured Chhatra League activists lie on the ground, left, while a group
beat a rival during a factional feud at Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Photo: Focus
At least 33 students were injured, two by bullets, during a factional feud of Bangladesh Chhatra
League at Jahangirnagar University yesterday over control of a male dormitory.
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Editorial
Death in law enforcers' hands
We strongly protest and urge govt action
REPORTS of three deaths of people in police custody only within a span of 5 days are simply
unacceptable. If police are the public face of the government then it is a very scary face
indeed that the citizens are
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Editorial
Why do police stray into trigger-happy
mode?
They should be trained in standard crowd control methods
THE death of a school student in an accident on the Dhaka-Mawa highway on Wednesday
has had a backlash of a stupendous proportion breaking into a series of incendiary incidents.At first, there was agitation over a demand for constructing speed breaker, this led to clashes
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Another man dies in cop custody3 such deaths in 5 days in city
Staff Correspondent
A man was allegedly killed under the capital's Darussalam police custody Thursday night.
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Khaleda for release of Jamaat trio
Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded immediate release of top Jamaat leaders last night
and termed their arrests "a heinous example of political repression in an autocratic manner".
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Law and order much better than any other time in the past: Sahara
Independent Online
SANGSAD BHABAN, Jun 30: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun today told
the House that the law and order in the country is now much better than any
other time in the past.
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Khaleda for release of Jamaat trio
Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded immediate release of top Jamaat leaders last nightand termed their arrests "a heinous example of political repression in an autocratic manner".
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Another man dies in cop custody
3 such deaths in 5 days in cityStaff Correspondent
A man was allegedly killed under the capital's Darussalam police custody Thursday night.
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Editorial
Why do police stray into trigger-happy
mode?
They should be trained in standard crowd control methods
THE death of a school student in an accident on the Dhaka-Mawa highway on Wednesday
has had a backlash of a stupendous proportion breaking into a series of incendiary incidents.
At first, there was agitation over a demand for constructing speed breaker, this led to clashes
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=145095
Editorial
Death in law enforcers' hands
We strongly protest and urge govt action
REPORTS of three deaths of people in police custody only within a span of 5 days are simply
unacceptable. If police are the public face of the government then it is a very scary face
indeed that the citizens are
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=145220
BCL infighting at JU leaves 33 hurt
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VC assaulted, BCL suspends JU unit, expels 13; university suspends 17 students
Injured Chhatra League activists lie on the ground, left, while a group
beat a rival during a factional feud at Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Photo: Focus
At least 33 students were injured, two by bullets, during a factional feud of Bangladesh Chhatra
League at Jahangirnagar University yesterday over control of a male dormitory.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=145552
Nearly 100 Jamaat men held across the country
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, with bureau reports
July 4: The Chittagong police has detained 40 activists of the Jamaat-Shibir after unruly Jamaat e
Islami cadres went on the rampage vandalising shops and attacking vehicles yesterday afternoon,
protesting the arrest of their top leaders by the police.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=180788
101 more Shibir men held in Ctg
Independent Online
Chittagong, Jul 5: The police have detained 101 more Islami Chhatra
Shibir activists following Sunday's vandalism in Chittagong City.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-30&nid=180020
Jamaat trio remanded for 16 days
Independent Online
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Dhaka, Jun 30: A Dhaka court has remanded three top Jamaat leaders in police custody
for 16 days each in five cases.
Chy Alam picked up by RabClaims Khoka, demands his release
Staff Correspondent
Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka yesterday demanded
DCC ward councillor and BNP central leader Chowdhury Alam be immediately
released or produced before a court.
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Another 'custodial' death
Staff Correspondent
A CNG-run auto rickshaw driver was killed early yesterday when he ran from police custody
and fell on the street in the city's Moghbazar, claimed police. However, the family had
different story to tell.
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Arrest made illegally
Says Jamaat, plans demonstrations today
Staff Correspondent
Jamaat-e-Islami will stage demonstrations across the country today to protest the arrest of itsthree top leaders..
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BNP demands judicial inquiry of attack on leaders
Independent Online
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Dhaka, Jun 29: The BNP parliamentary party has demanded a judicial
inquiry into the attack on its senior leaders during the hartal on
Sunday.
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Nizami, Mojaheed, Sayedee arrested
Independent Online
Dhaka, Jun 29: The police have arrested top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Matiur Rahman
Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee for defying court
orders.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-29&nid=179833
2 killed in city
Staff Correspondent
Criminals killed a housewife in the city's Jatrabari area yesterday.
Meanwhile, body of a man aged around 25 was recovered from a paint factory in the capital'sKadamtoli yesterday.
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BNP vice-chairman Shamser Mobin remanded
Independent Online
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Dhaka, Jun 28: A court here on Monday placed BNP vice-chairman
Shamser Mobin Chowdhury and six others on one day remand in a case
for preventing police from their duty and vandalizing vehicles on the
streets during Sundays hartal.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=179702
Raid inside house of Mirza Abbas
20 hurt as law enforcers charge batons
slide showOpposition workers wail in pain after a baton-
charge by Rab men at Mirza Abbas's house in Shahjahanpur yesterday. Inset, plain-clothes officers apprehenda pro-hartal activist inside the BNP leader's house. Photo: starMukhlesur Rahman
Rapid Action Battalion men yesterday stormed Mirza Abbas's Shahjahanpur residence in the
capital and charged baton injuring some 20 persons including family members of the BNP
standing committee
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Serious injured anee arrested
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http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-28&nid=179677
Hartal partially paralyses life in capital; At least 50 pickets arrested in capitalIndependent Online
Dhaka, Jun 27: A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by opposition BNP partially paralyzednormal life in the capital in the first few hours on Sunday as pro-hartal elements stagedpickets at various points, police and witnesses said.At least 500
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Five injured as BCL, JL clash at RU
RU CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI
June 26: A tense situation has been prevailing on Rajshahi University (RU) campus
for a rival clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League (JL)
activists.
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DCC councillor Chowdhury Alam arrestedUnb, Dhaka
Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor and BNP central leader Chowdhury Alam was arrested at the capital'sNaya Paltan yesterday.
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editorial
BCL excesses take an unbearable turnHow such offences can go unpunished?ADMISSION trade by Bangladesh Chhatra Leagur (BCL) activists has gone to such an extent that now differentfactions of this student wing are at each other's throat in claiming their stakes from the college administration indifferent districts
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Outlaw party leader killed in kushtia shootout
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Independent Online
Kushtia, Jun 24: An outlawed party leader was killed in an encounter
between his cohorts and the law enforcers at Baliapara government
primary school field in Sadar upazila early today (Thursday).
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-24&nid=179084
Bangladesh: Re-open Shuttered Newspaper; Free Editor
Investigate Serious Allegations of Torture in Detention
Shutting down a newspaper and jailing its editor shows the Bangladesh government apparently fears
a free and unencumbered press.
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'Mahmudur's health has deteriorated'
Independent Online
Dhaka, Jun 18: Lawyers for the detained acting editor of closed daily
Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman have expressed concern over his
health.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-18&nid=178205
50 killed in crossfire in 5 months: Odhikar
Ainul Haque Royal
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Contrary to the Government's claim that there were no "crossfire" or extra-judicial killings, around 50
people have been allegedly killed by the members of different law enforcement agencies during the lastfive months this year.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=177478
Crossfire, terrorism claim 34 lives in Khulna div in one month
UNB, KHULNA
June 11: At least 34 people were killed either in 'crossfire' or in different other incidents in
Khulna division, including the divisional headquarters in last month.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=177261
Mahmuds bail prayer rejected
COURT CORRESPONDENTMahmudur Rahman, acting editor of now closed the Daily Amar Desh was produced before the ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate (CMM) of Dhaka yesterday on completion of the one-day remand in a case filed
with Kotwali police station on the charge of obstructing policemen discharging duties and AdditionalChief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) AKM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan rejected the bail petition submittedon behalf of Mahmudur Rahman.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=177068
20 hurt as BCL activists clash with police
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET
June 8: At least 20 people including six police men were injured in a clash between BCL activists
and police at Sylhet Polytechnic institute this noon.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=176896
411 more politically motivated cases withdrawn
UNB, DHAKAThe government on Tuesday recommended withdrawal of 411 more cases on the grounds that they were'politically motivated' filed under previous regimes. The decision was taken after careful scrutiny during
the 19th inter-ministerial meeting on the withdrawal of political harassment cases, held at the HomeMinistry with State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam in the chair.
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Bangladesh Observer shuts down after 60-yr publication
'Board meeting soon to relaunch the paper'
STAFF REPORTER
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The Bangladesh Observer, the country's oldest English newspaper, yesterday
announced shutting down of its operations after 60 years of non-stop
publication.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-09&nid=176916
Mahmud taken on fresh 8-day remand
STAFF REPORTERActing Editor of now closed Bangla daily 'Amar Desh' Mahmudur Rahman was remanded to policecustody again for eight days in two more cases.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-09&nid=176904
BCL infighting at CU leaves five injured
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, CHITTAGONGJune 7: At least five activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a clash between rivalfactions of the ruling Awami League's associate student body in Chittagong University this afternoon.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-08&nid=176805
Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur RahmanTaken into 12 days remand
On 07 June 2010, Mahmudur Rahman, Acting Editor of the Bengali Daily Amar Desh was placedunder four days remand by two Metropolitan Magistrates in two separate cases. A three-day remandwas given in the Tejgaon Police Station Case No 2(6)2010 dated 02.06.2010 and a one-day remandwas granted in the Kotwali Police Station Case No. 5(6)2010 dated 02.06.2010.
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Mahmudur on 8-day remand
Indepndent Online
Dhaka, Jun 08: Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman has been
remanded in police custody for eight days.
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Mahmud placed on four-day police remand
STAFF REPORTER
Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Amar Desh, the Bangla daily that was
recently closed on government order, was placed on four days' police remand in
two separate cases yesterday.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-08&nid=176803
Mahmudur quizzed at jail gateStaff Correspondent
Police interrogated arrested Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman at Dhaka Central Jail gate yesterday ina case filed in connection with resisting arrest, assault on law enforcers and preventing them from doing their job.
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1 PCJSS activist shot dead in Rangamati
Independent Online
June 03 2010: An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) waskilled and another injured in a gunfight between the United People's Democratic Front
(UPDF) and PCJSS in Rajasthali upazila on Thursday.
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-06-03&nid=176094
Two RU BCL activists suspended
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI
June 2: Tow activists of Chhatra League of Rajshahi University unit were expelled from the
party for their anti-party activities. Both the expelled BCL activists were from Secretary Apu
group.
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STAFF REPORTERThe High Court yesterday expressed its grave concern over growing instances of custodial deaths in the
country and warned the government that this would not be tolerated.
The court also said that there would be zero tolerance to any custodial death as it is oath-bound toprotect the right to life according to the provisions of the Constitution.
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Mahmudur taken to court
Independent Online
June 02 2010: Detained Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahaman has
been produced before court in a case filed on charges of assault on police
officials.
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No tolerance for custodial deathHC warns govtAshutosh Sarkar
The High Court yesterday directed the government to put a stop to custodial deaths, saying the court will nottolerate such incidents.
An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, and Justice Md Delwar Hossain sounded thewarning during a public interest litigation hearing in connection with the May 11 death of Md Manik Mia in custodyof Chittagong police.
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Amar Desh shutDeclaration cancelled over 'publisher row'; acting editor Mahmudur arrested
Mahmudur RahmanStaff Correspondent
The government yesterday cancelled the declaration of the Bangla daily Amar Desh citing that it has noauthorised publisher.
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Amar Desh publisher 'out of home'
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June 01 2010: Pro-BNP Bengali-language daily Amar Desh publisher Hashmat
Ali has gone out after returning home after six hours in detention since Tuesday
morning, the family says.
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