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Crossfire in Bangladesh is a form of staged extrajudicial killings, often referring to the death of a person by gun shot under the custody of a law enforcement agency. [1] In March 2010, the then director general of the elite law enforcement agency of Bangladesh, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said that since it was started in 2004 RAB had killed 622 people.
Two factions of the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal, student wing of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were engaged in a gunfight on the campus of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. [6] [7] She was shot in the crossfire and died. [6] She was standing in front of Ahsanullah Hall of the university. [8]
Their family organized a press conference and protest asking they not be killed in a crossfire. [15] They were killed in a crossfire on 16 November. [15] Bangladesh High Court expressed concern over the death of the two brothers. [16] On 3 February, Mohiuddin Arif, a technician at Apollo Hospital Dhaka was detained and tortured in custody by ...
A mother with a photo of her son who became a victim of forced disappearance in 2013 (image by VOA). Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh refer to extrajudicial executions carried out by law enforcement agencies without due legal process and to abduction cases in which the government directly or indirectly kidnaps people and holds them incommunicado.
The Bangladesh government created an investigation team to look into the shooting after the audio call was leaked. [ 14 ] On 10 December 2021, the United States approved sanctions against seven current and former officers of the Rapid Action Battalion under the Magnitsky Act , the first Bangladeshi officials to face sanctions under the act. [ 15 ]
Inside the Death Squad or "'Death squad': Inside Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion" is a documentary film produced by Deutsche Welle in partnership with Netra News that investigates allegations of extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses committed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite police force in Bangladesh. [1]
The murder of Rifat Sharif occurred in Barguna town in Bangladesh on 26 June 2019. [1] ... Main accused Sabbir Hossain Nayan alias Nayan Bond was killed in crossfire [2]
[9] he was killed in a crossfire by Rapid Action Battalion next month. [10] This was around the time, when many criminals were being killed in crossfire incidents in Chittagong by Rapid Action Battalion. [11] Gittu Nasir was a follower of Shibir Nasir, [12] who was released from prison in August 2024 after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina. [13 ...