ICT to Deliver Verdict in Crimes Against Humanity Case Against Quader, 6 Others Next Week

File image of International Crimes Tribunal proceedings and former Awami League leader Obaidul Quader.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is set to deliver its verdict next week in the crimes against humanity case filed against seven individuals, including Awami League’s suspended General Secretary Obaidul Quader. Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Aminul Islam shared this information with journalists at his tribunal office on Thursday afternoon. “In the crimes against humanity case filed […]

Five Decades of Enforced Disappearances

A conceptual representation of documentation and historical records detailing human rights investigations and state accountability frameworks regarding enforced disappearances in Bangladesh.

Kalpana Chakma was 23 years old, an organising secretary for a hill women’s rights group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, when armed men in military uniform dragged her from her home in Rangamati on the night of June 12, 1996. Her brothers, who witnessed the abduction, identified the officer in charge. Thirty years later, she […]