In its response to the UN rapporteurs, the government denies harassment and intimidation and questions UN working group’s reliance on Odhikar’s work on disappearances

Bangladeshi state agencies also accused of “heinous” harassment by distorting images of female relatives of the disappeared and claiming them to be “prostitutes”.

In the first in a series about Bangladeshi dissidents, Netra News looks at the most popular dissident YouTube journalists operating from outside the country.

UN letter puts pressure on the Awami League government to justify its alleged repressive activities towards the opposition

The offshore company owns the £1.2 million London house where Sheikh Rehana, sister of the Bangladesh prime minister, has been living rent free for years.

The secret arrangement, involving an offshore company, raises conflict of interest concerns as the conglomerate has benefited under the current government.

Hundreds of activists arrested, including top leaders and spokesman.

A shadowy business conglomerate supplies interception and surveillance tools to Bangladesh’s security and intelligence agencies.

United Nations high commissioner for human rights says that she raised “deep concern” with the government over “serious allegations”.

Survivors blow the lid off a secret prison operated by the DGFI, Bangladesh’s notorious military intelligence agency.

Bangladesh’s information ministry orders television stations not to use the term “indigenous” to describe the ethnic communities in the country.

Former director of HRW Asia division accuses Sheikh Hasina of knowing about disappearances and extrajudicial killings, and turning a blind eye.

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will raise issues of extrajudicial killings, disappearances and freedom of expression.

Bangladesh not alone in underestimating the number of Covid-19 deaths.

RAB-1: “If scrutinised closely, one can understand that [the disappearance of Ilias Ali] was a well-planned mission” that was “evidently carried out by RAB’s intelligence wing.”

Bangladesh’s honorary consuls in Belarus and Saint Petersburg (Russia) have been sanctioned by multiple Western states.

The Bangladesh government is two years late in responding to a highly critical report published by the UN Committee on Torture (CAT).

In its attempt to reverse the US sanctioning of RAB, the Bangladesh government has hired a new law firm at a cost of $240,000.

A Congress aide says that there will be “a lot more consequences” if elections are not “free, fair and credible”.

Read the documents sent out by the US lobbyist in 2021 seeking to promote the Bangladesh government in the United States.

Families of disappeared say that Bangladesh police are trying to mislead UN bodies by pressing them to retract claims.

Reports filed by lobbying firm show that Bangladesh government has regularly paid $320,000 per year to one firm to lobby the US government.

After the US sanctions, Bangladesh’s police chief defends himself and RAB, blaming human rights groups and “anti-state” elements.

Former Bangladesh army chief acknowledges his brother falsified passport and other documents.

Letter sent to Bangladesh government contains damning allegations of human rights violations.

UN Human Rights deputy spokesperson comments on RAB and peacekeeping.

What you need to know about the imposition of US sanctions on Bangladesh’s elite law enforcement unit.

In major policy shift, the United States imposes sanctions on Bangladesh’s notorious law enforcement unit and its current and former commanders.

Social media company claims that a “dedicated team” took aggressive action to remove content inciting violence.

“The case against Nusrat Shahrin Raka was based on faked evidence,” says media watchdog.

Award jury praised “All the Prime Minister’s Men” as providing “a unique insight into a state captured by organized crime and corruption”.

Kanak Sarwar accused the government of seeking to silence him, but says his sister’s detention would not stop his criticisms.

Bangladeshi politicians vulnerable to UK government travel and financial sanctions due to role in extrajudicial killings.

In a classic self-dealing scheme, a Bangladeshi minister assists a front company controlled by his own close aides and family members to clinch a $305 million deal in partnership with Marubeni and Vitol.

Publication of a report on alleged corruption involving a Bangladeshi minister triggers false copyright claims to YouTube.

Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, co-signed the remission for a man who ran the businesses of those guilty of conspiring to assassinate her father.

Bangladesh Army criticisms of the whistleblower in Al Jazeera’s film conflict with his role hosting ministers in Hungary over a five year period.

The UN Department of Peace Operations denies for a second time that it had any agreement with the Bangladesh Army to purchase surveillance equipment.

Al Jazeera film starts to have political impact as UN spokesperson puts spotlight on Bangladesh.

Rights groups concerned that meetings could act as endorsement of Chief of Army Staff, at centre of corruption allegations.

What happened in the court proceedings that resulted in the convictions of the Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff’s brothers.

Al Jazeera exposes network of political and financial corruption centred around Bangladesh’s army chief, implicating the prime minister.

A power struggle at the top of Bangladesh’s police service leads to the transfer of two police officers in opposing camps.

“They gave us electric shocks. To the ears and other places. Ripped off chest hair. Gave us injections. We were hung by our hands from the ceiling. Beat mercilessly…”

A leaked confidential intelligence agency report claims that the retired army major came out of his car with hands above his head.

Directorate General of Forces Intelligence accused of hacking and cyber crimes; “our boys and girls [hack Facebook]”, boasts the Bangladeshi telecom and ICT minister.

Total number of Covid-19 deaths could be kept below 5,000 say team of international academics

Modelling by MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis suggests loosening of Bangladesh lockdown could result in daily infections increasing 18-fold.

Rapid Action Battalion targets journalists, writers, activists and businessmen using the controversial Digital Security Act.

Total number of recovered rises to 1063 from 177 in less than 24 hours.

Lack of trust between the Rohingyas and healthcare providers must be urgently addressed to ensure effective Covid-19 treatment in the refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh.

Those infected include eight officers from the Army Medical Corps.

Limited testing, lack of oxygen supplies, no intensive care capacity and mobile phone restrictions amongst concerns set out in UN report.

Army Medical Corps officer, on duty at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, tested positive for Covid-19.

United Nations situation report notes quickly depleting stock of PPE and N95 masks.

Leaked UN interagency memo led by WHO predicts “complete saturation” of the health system early in the Covid-19 epidemic and “rampant” exposure of healthcare workers in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Covid-19 report removed from Scribd at the request of Brac James P Grant School of Public Health — Netra News is now making available a redacted copy of the report.

Brac University to investigate and take action against senior academic for his role in producing Covid-19 forecasts for Bangladesh, based on internationally respected modelling.

According to a forecast by epidemiologists and public health academics, 81% of the entire population of Bangladesh may get infected by Covid-19, with 80,796 deaths on a single day.

Sheikh Hasina’s aide and influential members of parliament are among the powerful backers of the controversial company behind the digital financial service Nagad.

BGB officers accuse Major General Shafeenul Islam of criminal ties with Selim Prodhan.

In an unusual intervention, the Bangladeshi origin British Labour MP strongly criticised the Awami League’s human rights record and the party’s hagiography towards its leaders.

Why a dubious fish farm, which catapulted Awami League’s mayoral candidate for Dhaka South, into the category of Bangladesh’s super rich, requires investigation.

BNP’s mayoral candidate for Dhaka North fails to disclose ownership of a foreign company in his affidavit to the Election Commission of Bangladesh.

The Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court refused bail after receiving a medical board report referring to Khaleda’s serious health condition.

As the influential minister admits to receiving expensive luxury watches as “gifts”, anti-corruption watchdog demands investigation.

Corruption of Arafat “Koko” Rahman, according to US court records.

Major corruption trial against BNP leaders in question as international arbitration tribunal finds no corruption in Niko deal, while the Bangladesh government tries to keep the decision away from public eyes.

Luxury wristwatches at the centre of new corruption allegation against Obaidul Quader, the Bangladeshi minister of road transport and bridges.