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Monday, April 3, 2017

Inter-parliamentary union in Dhaka: Is this really going on?

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Prime minister meets with speakers of 19 ipu member states One must have more than a sneaking regard for how the Awami League govern...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

UN's 14 key demands on Bangladesh government human rights record

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The United Nations Human Rights Committee - which assesses state parties' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Po...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Bangladesh government at the UN Human Rights Committee

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Anisul Huq, the Bangladesh Law Minister, responding to questions at the UN Human Rights Committee 17 years ago, in September 2000, B...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Daily Star, Padma Bridge and Canada's Federal court

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Over a month ago, the Daily Star published a front page news article on a Canadian court decision dealing with the admissibility of wir...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Disappearances in last two years - list of men still missing

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This page links to the '2016 disappearances' main page, which is here. Below are the details of 19 people whose families claim a...

Bangladesh's Enforced Disappearances 2016

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An 'Enforced Disappearance' is defined in international law as an: “arrest, detention, abduction or any other form o...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Kerry's visit to Bangladesh

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Kerry at the house where Sheikh Mujib was murdered The significance of the current trip to Bangladesh of the US Secretary of State, Joh...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The ten fictions of the ‘TerroristObserver’ website

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When I made a film about 1971 war crimes , people alleged that I had taken money from the Awami League; when I wrote about the Internatio...
Monday, May 2, 2016

The '$300 million plot?' - lies, damn lies and Bangladesh political parties

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In Bangladesh politics, there is minimal - if any - respect for basic facts. This is particularly evident by the way in which politic...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

'Plot to kill Joy' - The article that bdnews24.com refused to publish

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Toufique Khalidi, Editor in Chief Yesterday, I was told that bdnews24.com had refused to publish an op-ed on the the alleged 'plo...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

A response to bdpanorama - should one laugh, cry, sue or what?

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What does one do when a news website in Bangladesh publishes total defamatory rubbish about you and your family - and then gets 13,000 Fa...
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The so-called 'plot to kill Joy' - This is what we know

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Yesterday, t he Indian news website The Wire published an article on the so-called plot 'to kill' Sajeeb Wazed, the son of the ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The need for nuanced history about 1971

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Syed Badrul Hasan has written an article for bdnews24.com criticising an oped I wrote  concerning the proposed new law crimanalising p...
Monday, April 11, 2016

"Bangladesh's deeply politicised, dysfunctional criminal justice system"

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The International Crisis Group has published a new report on Bangladesh (which I have written briefly about here ) and whilst I don'...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Bangladesh Liberation War (Denial, Distortion, Opposition) Crime Law’

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Last week, a New York Times oped criticised the breadth of the Bangladesh Law Commission's proposed new law, now titled, ‘Bangladesh ...