An assistant of the defense team of ICT was arrested while making photocpies of documents provided by the tribunal itself

ফটোকপি করার সময় ট্রাইব্যুনালের নামে ফোন করিয়ে আটক

নিজস্ব প্রতিনিধি

যুদ্ধাপরাধ মামলায় অধ্যাপক গোলাম আযমের বিরুদ্ধে দায়ের করা মামলা সম্পর্কিত কিছু কাগজপত্র নীলক্ষেতে ফটোকপি করার সময় আসামি পক্ষের আইনজীবীদের গবেষণা দলের একজন সদস্যকে আটক করে নিউমার্কেট থানা পুলিশ। গত মঙ্গলবার এ ঘটনা ঘটে। আজ বুধবার ট্রাইব্যুনালের নির্দেশে নিউমাকের্ট থানার ওসি মোস্তাফিজুর রহমান আটককৃত ব্যক্তি ও জব্দকৃত ডকুমেন্ট নিয়ে হাজির হন আদালতে। আদালতকে তিনি জানান, ট্রাইব্যুনাল থেকে তাদেরকে বলা হয়েছে নীলক্ষেতে যুদ্ধাপরাধ বিষয়ক কাগজপত্র ফটোকপি করা হচ্ছে। এগুলো প্রসিকিউশনের ডকুমেন্ট। এগুলো ওখানে গেল কী করে। ওগুলো আপনারা আটকান। তখন আমরা এ পদক্ষেপ নেই।
আজ সকাল সাড়ে দশটার দিকে ট্রাইব্যুনালের কার্যক্রম শুরু হলে আসামি পক্ষের আইনজীবী তাজুল ইসলাম আদালতকে বলেন, গভীর দুঃখের সাথে আজ আদালতকে একটি বিষয় জানাতে হচ্ছে। অধ্যাপক গোলাম আযমের বিষয়ে ট্রাইব্যুনালের নির্দেশে যেসব ডকুমেন্ট প্রসিকিউশন আমাদের দিয়েছিল তার কিছু কাগজপত্র আমরা নীলক্ষেতে ফটোকপির জন্য পঠিয়েছিলাম আমাদের রিসার্চ টিমের একজন সদস্যকে। কিন্তু গত মঙ্গলবার ফটোকপি করার সময় সমস্ত ডকুমেন্টসহ ওই সদস্যকে আটক করে নিয়ে যায় নিউমার্কেট থানা পুলিশ।
তাজুল ইসলাম বলেন, আমাদের ওই সদস্যকে আটকের পর তার মোবাইল ফোন সিজ করা হয় এবং তার সাথে আমাদের যোগাযোগ বন্ধ হয়ে যায়।
আদালত তখন বলেন, মঙ্গলবার এ কথা আমাদের জানননি কেন। তাজুল ইসলাম তখন বলেন, যাকে আমরা ফটোকপির জন্য পাঠাই তার সাথে যোগাযোগ করতে না পারার কারণে আমরা জানতে পারিনি কী হয়েছে। রাতে ফটোকপির দোকানে দিয়ে দোকান বন্ধ পাই। সারা রাত তার কোনো খোঁজ পাইনি। আজ (বুধবার) সকালে দোকান খোলার পর আমরা ফটোকপির দোকানে গিয়ে জানতে পারি মঙ্গলবার ফটোকপির সময় তাকে নিউমার্কেট পুলিশ ধরে নিয়ে গেছে কাগজপত্রসহ। এপর আমরা থানাই যোগাযোগ করি। থানা কর্তৃপক্ষকে জানাই যে, এগুলো আমাদের লিগ্যাল ডকুমেন্ট। ট্রাইব্যুনালের নির্দেশেই রাষ্ট্রপক্ষের প্রসিকিউশন এগুলো আমাদের দিয়েছে। এটা এখন আমাদের ডকুমেন্ট। আমাদের কাজের প্রয়োজনে এগুলো আমরা ফটোকপির জন্য নিলক্ষেতে পাঠিয়েছি। এটা অবৈধ কোনো কিছু নয়। কিন্তু তারপরও থানা কর্তৃপক্ষ আমাদের ডকুমেন্ট ফেরত দিতে অস্বীকার করে। আটককৃত ব্যক্তিকেও তারা ছাড়েনি। তারা বলেছে ট্রাইব্যুনালের নির্দেশ ছাড়া এগুলো তারা ফেরত দেবে না।
নীলক্ষেতে ফটোকপি করতে পাঠানো বিষয়ে তাজুল ইসলাম আদালতকে জানান, আমাদের একটি ফটোকপি মেশিন রয়েছে। কিন্তু আমাদের যে কাগজপত্র দেয়া হয়েছে তা ৩০ হাজার কপির মত। এখান থেকে কয়েক সেট বানাতে হলে লক্ষাধিক কপি ফটোকপির দরকার হয়। আমাদের নিজস্ব যে ফটোকপি মেশিন রয়েছে তাতে অল্প সময়ে এত বেশি ফটোকপি করা সম্ভব নয়। সে কারণে আমরা নীলক্ষেতে পাঠাই।
এ ঘটনা শোনার পর আদালত তাজুল ইসলামকে বলেন, আপনি এখনই বিষয়টি লিখিত আকারে আমাদেরকে জানান। আমরা পদক্ষেপ নিচ্ছি। আদালত বলেন, এভাবে এসব ডকুমেন্ট পাবলিক প্লেসে ফটোকপি না করাই ভালো।
এ পর্যায়ে রাষ্ট্রপক্ষের আইনজীবী জেয়াদ আল মালুম আদালতকে পরামর্শ দিয়ে বলেন, আটককৃত ব্যক্তি ও জব্দকৃত মালামাল প্রথমে ট্র্রাইব্যুনালে জমা দেয়ার নির্দেশ দেয়া হোক। তারপর সেগুলো দেখে তাদের ফেরত দেয়ার ব্যবস্থা করা হোক।
তখন ট্রাইব্যুনাল নিউ মার্কেট থানার ওসিকে একটার মধ্যে (বুধবার) আটককৃত ব্যক্তি (এস এম জোবায়ের আলম) এবং জব্দকৃত ডকুমেন্টসহ আদালতে হাজির হতে নির্দেশ দেন। লিখিত নির্দেশ পেয়ে নিউ মার্কেট থানার ওসি মোস্তাফিজুর রহমান সাড়ে বারটার দিকে ট্রাইব্যুনালে হাজির হন। আদালত তার কাছে ঘটনা জানতে চাইলে তিনি বলেন, ট্রাইব্যুনাল থেকে তাদেরকে বলা হয়েছে নীলক্ষেতে যুদ্ধাপরাধবিষয়ক কাগজপত্র ফটোকপি করা হচ্ছে। এগুলো প্রসিকিউশনের ডকুমেন্ট। এগুলো ওখানে গেল কী করে। ওগুলো আপনারা আটকান। তখন আমরা এ পদক্ষেপ নেই।
আদালত তখন বলেন, আমরা তিনজন ট্রাইব্যুনালের বিচারপতি। আমরা তো কেউ এ কথা বলিনি।
ঘটনা জানার পর এবং জব্দকৃত কাগজপত্র দেখে আদালত তখনই তা আসামি পক্ষের আইনজীবীদের ফেরত দেয়া এবং আটক এস এম জোবায়ের আলমকেও ছেড়ে দেয়ার আদেশ দেন। এরপর আদালত কক্ষেই এ আদেশ বাস্তবায়ন করা হয়।
আসামি পক্ষের আইনজীবী তাজুল ইসলাম সাংবাদিকদের বলেন, পুলিশ বলেছে ট্রাইব্যুনালের বরাদ দিয়ে কেউ তাদের ফোন করেছে। আর ট্রাইব্যুনাল বলেছেন তারা এ জাতীয় কোনো আদেশ দেননি। তাহলে ট্রাইব্যুনালের নাম ব্যবহার করে কারা এবং কাদের প্ররোচনায় এ কাজ করেছে তা চিহ্নিত করা দরকার। এটি স্বাধীন বিচার ব্যবস্থার জন্য কলঙ্কজনক। একটা বৈধ ডকুমেন্ট ফটোকপি করতেও যদি আসামি পক্ষকে এভাবে হয়রানি করা হয় তাহলে আমরা যাব কোথায়? তিনি বলেন, পেছন থেকে একটি মহল জেনেশুনে কলকাঠি নাড়ছে। ন্যায়বিচার প্রাপ্তি থেকে আমাদের বাধাগ্রস্ত করার চেষ্টা করছে।

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Stockport son’s fears as ‘political icon' faces death penalty over alleged war crimes in Bangladesh

 

Numan Azmi says his father Prof Ghulam Azam, right, will not get a fair trial in Bangladesh

The family of a former political leader accused of masterminding war crimes during Bangladesh’s liberation struggle have criticised his arrest.
Ghulam Azam, 89, led the anti-independence Jamaat-e-Islami party during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. He was arrested last week by the International Crimes Tribunal in his homeland.
Mr Azam denies 62 charges - which include murder, rape, arson and looting. But supporters say his arrest is politically motivated.
His son Numan Azmi, 49, who has lived in Stockport for more than 30 years, fears his father – who could face the death penalty – will not receive a fair trial.
He said: "We are not saying we are against these trials, but we want them to be just and to be fair and at the moment we do not believe this will be the case.
"These are show trials which are targeting just one group of people aligned to one political party for the political motives of the current pro-independence government.
"Spiritually my father is strong but physically he is very weak. He is quite frail and cannot walk unaided and it concerns me greatly what he is being put through when there is not a shred of evidence against him."
Mr Azam, who briefly lived in Manchester during a six-year exile from his homeland, has become a political icon among pro-Islamist groups.
He delivered a famous speech in the city in 1973 against the creation of Bangladesh.
In 2010, the Bangladeshi government set up the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka to bring trials against those accused of committing atrocities during the struggle.
Human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has raised concerns over the trials, which they believe fall short of international standards after defence lawyers reported being harassed by police and state officials.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We support holding war-crime trials where evidence suggests that war crimes may have been committed, but it is essential that any trial meets internationally agreed standards of justice. Trials should be open, transparent, include the right to conduct a proper defence and be in accordance with appropriate human-rights standards."

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Witness in war crime tribunal is a convicted thief!

WAR CRIME TRIAL
Witness disclosing embarrassing facts 
It comes as a surprise that the complaint of the high profile case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayeedi before the war crime tribunal is a convicted thief. He was accused of and then sentenced to imprisonment in a robbery case for breaking into the house of a member of the Hindu community in his neighbourhood in the Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur district along with some others.
The man Mahbubul Alam Hawlader who filed the case in 2009 after 38 years of the liberation war on charge of crime against humanity is also now on bail in yet another case by his first wife on charges of violence against woman and demand for dowry.

Full Story It comes as a surprise that the complaint of the high profile case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayeedi before the war crime tribunal is a convicted thief. He was accused of and then sentenced to imprisonment in a robbery case for breaking into the house of a member of the Hindu community in his neighbourhood in the Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur district along with some others.
The man Mahbubul Alam Hawlader who filed the case in 2009 after 38 years of the liberation war on charge of crime against humanity is also now on bail in yet another case by his first wife on charges of violence against woman and demand for dowry.
An executive council member and three times elected MP from a Pirojpur constituency, Sayedee has been indicted on 20 counts of crimes against humanity at the International Crimes Tribunal set up to deal with such offences during Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971. His alleged crimes include murder, rape, loot and arson.
During the questioning by the defence lawyers in the tribunal, the complaint said he was a freedom fighter and had worked as the chief intelligence gathering agent for the freedom fighters in the district at that time. But the questioning revealed that he was only a 12 year minor at that time raising the question whether his claims were credible at all. How a minor boy could discharge such risky duty to cover military operations and gather secret information?
On further questioning Hawlader said he did not have the habit of reading newspapers at that time and but did not know the names of peace committee members of the district and the local upazilas. Neither could he recollect who were his immediate boss and other persons in the network. More interestingly, he has failed to name the place or the camp where he was trained as an intelligence gathering agent.
He told the court early last week that as a freedom fighter he is now living on state allowances. His second wife is also receiving state allowance to manage a square meal for the family members.
During the questioning on last Wednesday doubts further deepened on his claim as a freedom fighter. He told the court that he was not on the list of the freedom fighter until the last BNP government gave him the accreditation card. Further disclosures in the court showed when the present Awami League government came to power local party supporters submitted written objections to the incumbent MP Abdul Awal against Hawlader’s inclusion on the list of freedom fighters. The Lawmaker had then stopped his allowances which he was receiving as a freedom fighter on verbal instructions to the concerned authorities.
This prompted the defence lawyers to question whether under the circumstances he struck a deal with the administration by agreeing to file the case against Maulana Sayeedi as a war crime accused in return of his government allowances. Hawlader however turned down the suggestion as not true.
However, during the questioning it was revealed that complaint was a poor person living from hand to mouth. He managed to enlist his name as a freedom fighter during the last BNP government when Maulana Sayeedi was the local lawmaker.
Sayeedi had also twice recommended his petitions to the district deputy commissioner – once for financial assistance and subsequently to help him out to get some CI sheets to make roof of his house.
On questioning how he could turn against the man who has helped him so much, he said he did not personally approach him for those recommendations. Local Freedom Fighters Command secured the recommendations and Sayedi did his job as the local MP.
He had no credible answer on a question as to why he did not file the case against Sayeedi until last year.
The defence lawyers said after the liberation war when around 300 persons were sued for their involvement in war crimes, why he had not sued him at that time. He had no answer.
The defence lawyers said Sayeedi was the three times elected MP from the same Pirojpur constituency where he won the election every time with huge margin. Most freedom fighters had also worked for him in his electioneering process. Nobody had ever raised the question of his involvement in war crimes. He had even secured landslide margin in the village polling centre of the present Awami League MP as an honest credible person.
The defence lawyers are holding the cross examination of the complaint in the case with their arguments focused on proving that as a fraud and thief, the complaint has brought the case against Maulana Sayeedi on the prompting of the Awami League government.
He is a victim of conspiracy, they wanted to say. The cross examination may continue for some more days.
It is interesting to note that the prosecutions had opposed the disclosure of the contents of the petitions of Hawlader to district deputy commissioner in which he described himself as a poor man to justify his prayer for help. Earlier they had also raised objections on dealing with his personal profile.
The court however allowed the defence to continue these questioning despite objection from the prosecution however saying that any irrelevant sections will be expunged formal the records.

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UN Human Rights High Commission about Nijami and others

The UN human rights high commission has wanted to know the origin of legal basis and ground of confinement of six apex war criminal e.g. Jaamat’s Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami and including Secretary General Ali Hasan Mohammad Muzahid. The commission has given a letter to Government and demand answer of 35 points specifically. The letter has been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the chief of permanent mission of Bangladesh in Geneva on 12^th September 2011. Although it was mentioned to reply the letter within 60 days but it did not become possible. It is informed to us that the Government has extended the time limit In the meantime.

The letter from the office of The UN human rights high commission captioned by “WORKING GROUP ON Arbitary DETENTION” The UN human rights high commission mentioned that jamaat leader Matiur Rahman Nijami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Delawar Hossen Saidee, Kamaruzzaman, Abdul Kader Mollah, permanent committee member of BNP Salauddin Kader Chowdhury have been confined for trial and bring them to remand, identify condemned before trial, reject Bail petition and different issues have been indicted to them.

On the other hand the convener of International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh Abdul Hannan Khan (PPM) ensures that they got the letter from The UN human rights high commission. He informed that they would not reply it yet. They are continuing communication with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bangladesh Police is concerned about it and they will reply.

It is mentioned in the letter by the office of The UN human rights commission that Matiur Rahman Nijami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Delawar Hossen Saidee, Kamaruzzaman, Abdul Kader Mollah, BNP leader Salauddin Kader Chowdhury is confined illegally which has been indicted in written form to them. Basis on that written complain a working group of The UN human rights commission is investigating on it. It is also mentioned in that indict that it is denominated freedom of that 6 BNP and Jamaat leaders.

It is also mentioned in that letter that they are deprived of justice and right of justice which is mentioned in the UN charter for human rights, the conditions have violated by confining them.

It is also mentioned in that letter that everybody has submitted petition for Bail again and again where they mentioned with submission that they will not go anywhere without permission of the proper authority. They will not interfere in trial. They will deposit cash in need their Bail. Above all, their Bail petition is rejected. Deputy Minister of the ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Kamrul Islam said that, there is no chance of Bail of the war criminals. The complainant expressed anxiety to The UN human rights high commission and informed that Tribunal confined them without completing investigation. Even though, Tribunal do not serve any information to the accused petitioner.

The chief rapportier of ‘Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’ L. Hadji Malik Su demanded the answer from Abdul Hannan, the chief of permanent mission of Bangladesh in Geneva in the office of The UN human rights high commission against the complain submitted.

It is mentioned in the letter that, The UN human rights high commission deserve details by 60 days about the complain. Bangladesh Govt. can extend one month of the time limit if they would think necessary by informing the working group. If Bangladesh Govt. does not answer within this time limit the working group of The UN human rights high commission will express their opinion or speech based on the information they have.

It informed that, the Ministry of Home affairs sent the subject matter of 35 points to the convener of International Crimes Tribunal and the IGP of Bangladesh Police at 1^stDecember 2011. The Bangladesh police Headquarter got the letter at 4^thDecember.

A letter also sent to the Ministry of Home affairs by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 25^thOctober which was received at 26^th October by the Ministry of Home affairs.

It is mentioned in the letter that, Motiur Rahman Nizami was confined at 29^th June 2010. The CMM court accepted remand for 16 days at 30^th June on ground of the 5 suit filed against him in Palton Police Station. At 26^th July it was granted 3 days remand on ground of suit filed against him in Kadomtoli Police Station. The relatives and the lawyers were not allowed to meet with him. During his confinement he was arrested as a suspected war criminal by the petition submitted by chief of International Crimes Tribunal at 22^ndJuly. He was discharged from all suit filed in Palton Police Station, Kadomtoli Police Station at 29^thand 30^th November. The suit is pending which was filed in Motihar Police Station, Keranigonj Police Station, and Pallobi Police Station against Motiur Rahman Nizami. He can’t collect the certified copy of that suit being obstructed by International Crimes Tribunal. Abdul Kader Mollah, Assistant Secretary of Jamaat arrested at 13^thJuly 2010. At 22^nd July he has shown arrest by International Crimes Tribunal. Although he is discharged from all suit but he is confined for two ordinary suits filed in Keranigonj and Pallobi Police Station. The other Assistant Secretary of Jamaat, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman arrested 13^thJuly 2010. Secretary General Ali Hasan Mohammad Muzahid and Naib-e –Amir Delawar Hossen Saidee has arrested at 29^th Jun 2010. Permanent committee member of BNP Salauddin Kader Chowdhury has arrested 16^th December 2010. Everybody has shown arrested during his confinement as suspected war criminal.

 

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After 18 months of unlawful detention of Jamaat leaders the United Nations wanted to know from the govt of Bangladesh its views on the matter

" We are very happy to know that After about 18 months of unlawful detention of Jamaat leaders the United Nations office of Human Rights (working group on arbitrary detention) wanted to know from the govt of Bangladesh its views on the matter. The civilized world has protested against the trial of the war criminals in Bangladesh under International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973 as it falls far below the international standards." - The Defense Chief Lawyer Barrister Abdur Razzaq On this news

নিজামিদের অবস্থা জানতে চেয়ে সরকারকে জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার কমিশনের চিঠি

শাহজাহান আকন্দ শুভ, কবির আহমেদ খান: জামায়াতের আমির মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদসহ ৬ শীর্ষ যুদ্ধাপরাধীর আটকের কারণ, আইনের ভিত্তি জানতে চেয়েছে জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার হাইকমিশন। আটক এসব নেতাদের আইনজীবীদের আবেদনের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে সুনির্দিষ্টভাবে ৩৫টি দফার সুস্পষ্ট জবাব চেয়ে সরকারের কাছে চিঠি দিয়েছে কমিশন। জেনেভায় বাংলাদেশের স্থায়ী মিশন প্রধানের মাধ্যমে পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ের কাছে গত ১২ সেপ্টেম্বর এই চিঠি পাঠানো হয়। যুদ্ধাপরাধের তদন্ত সংস্থা আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল ও পুলিশের মহাপরিদর্শকের কাছে এর জবাব তৈরি করে স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ে প্রেরণের নির্দেশ দেওয়া হয়েছে।

জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার কমিশন ষাট দিনের মধ্যে ৩৫ দফা জবাব পাঠানোর কথা উল্লেখ করলেও তা সম্ভব হয়নি। ইতোমধ্যে সরকার এর সময়সীমা আরও এক মাস বাড়িয়ে নিয়েছে বলে জানা গেছে। জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার হাইকমিশনারের কার্যালয় থেকে ‘ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“প অন আরবিট্রেরি ডিটেনশন’ এর নামে প্রেরিত চিঠিতে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে- জামায়াত নেতা মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ, দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদী, কামারুজ্জামান, আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা এবং বিএনপির স্থায়ী কমিটির সদস্য সালাহউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরীর আটকের বিষয়ে তাদের আইনজীবীরা আবেদন করেছেন। বিচারের নামে আটক রেখে রিমান্ডে নেওয়া, বিচারের আগেই দোষী হিসেবে চিহ্নিত করা, জামিন না দেওয়াসহ বিভিন্ন বিষয় উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে আবেদনে। এসব বিষয়ে হাইকমিশনের ‘ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“প অন আরবিট্রেরি ডিটেনশন’ বাংলাদেশের জবাব জানতে চেয়েছে। জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার সংক্রান্ত হাইকমিশন কার্যালয়ের চিঠি পাওয়ার কথা নিশ্চিত করেছেন তদন্ত সংস্থা ইন্টারন্যাশনাল অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের সমন্বয়ক মোহাম্মদ আব্দুল হাননান খান (পিপিএম)। তিনি আমাদের সময়কে বলেন, এ বিষয়ে তারা এখনও জবাব দেননি। পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ের সঙ্গে এ ব্যাপারে যোগাযোগ রাখছেন। তিনি বলেন, ‘এ বিষয়ে পুলিশ কনসার্ন। তারা জবাব দিচ্ছে।’

জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার সংক্রান্ত হাইকমিশনারের অফিস থেকে বলা হয়েছে, মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ, দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদী, কামারুজ্জামান, আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা এবং বিএনপি নেতা সালাহউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরীকে অবৈধভাবে আটক রাখা হয়েছে বলে তাদের কাছে লিখিত অভিযোগ জমা হয়। ওই অভিযোগের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে হাইকমিশনের একটি ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“প এ বিষয় তদন্ত করে দেখছে। অভিযোগে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, বাংলাদেশে ওই ৬ বিএনপি-জামায়াত নেতার স্বাধীনতা হরণ করা হয়েছে।

চিঠিতে আরও উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার সনদে যে ন্যায় বিচার এবং বিচার ব্যবস্থার অধিকার থাকার কথা উল্লেখ আছে, সেই সনদের শর্ত ভঙ্গ করা হয়েছে তাদের আটক রেখে। কী কারণে এবং কোন আইনের ওপর ভিত্তি করে তাদের আটক করা হয়েছে তার আইনি ব্যাখ্যা সম্পর্কেও জানতে চেয়েছে জাতিসংঘ মানবাধিকার সংক্রান্ত হাইকমিশনার।

চিঠিতে আরও উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে-যুদ্ধাপরাধের অভিযোগে আটক উল্লিখিত সবাই বার বার জামিনের জন্য আবেদন জানিয়েছেন। তাতে বলা হয়েছে-জামিন পেলে সংশ্লিষ্ট কর্তৃপক্ষের অনুমতি ছাড়া তারা কোথাও যাবেন না। বিচারে কোনও হস্তক্ষেপ করবেন না। জামিনের জন্য তারা অর্থ জামানত রাখার কথাও বলেছেন। এরপরও জামিন হয়নি। আইন প্রতিমন্ত্রী গণমাধ্যমে বলেছেন-যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের কোনও জামিনের সুযোগ নেই। এসব বিষয়ে মানবাধিকার কমিশনের কাছে উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করে আবেদনকারী বলেছে-ট্রাইবুনাল তদন্ত সম্পূর্ণ না করেই তাদের আটক রাখছে। এমনকী তাদের আইনজীবীদের কোনও তথ্য দিচ্ছে না ট্রাইবুনাল।

জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার বিষয়ক হাইকমিশনার কার্যালয়ের ‘ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“প অন আরবিট্রেরি ডিটেনশন’ এর প্রধান রেপোরটিয়ার এল হাডযি মালিক সো জেনেভায় অবস্থিত বাংলাদেশের স্থায়ী মিশনের প্রতিনিধি মো. আব্দুল হান্নানের কাছে যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার নিয়ে করা অভিযোগের জবাব চেয়ে চিঠিটি দেন। ওই চিঠিতে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছেÑ সর্বোচ্চ ৬০ দিনের মধ্যে সংস্থাটি অভিযোগের বিষয়ে বাংলাদেশের কাছে বিস্তারিত তথ্য জানতে চায়। তবে বাংলাদেশ সরকার যদি প্রয়োজন মনে করে সেক্ষেত্রে ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“পকে জানিয়ে এক মাস সময় বাড়িয়ে নিতে পারে। এরপরও জবাব না দিলে মানবাধিকার কমিশনের ওয়ার্কিং গ্র“প তাদের কাছে থাকা তথ্যের ভিত্তিতে মতামত বা বক্তব্য জানিয়ে দেবে।

ইতোমধ্যে মানবাধিকার কমিশনের দেওয়া ৬০ দিন অনেক আগেই পেরিয়ে গেছে। তবে জবাব দিতে বাংলাদেশের পক্ষ থেকে সময় বাড়িয়ে নেওয়া হয়। জানা যায়, যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচারের জন্য তদন্ত সংস্থা আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনাল জবাব লিখছে।

জানা যায়, গত বছরের পহেলা ডিসেম্বর স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় থেকে উল্লিখিত ৩৫টি দফার বিষয়বস্তু তদন্ত সংস্থা ‘আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনালে’র সমন্বয়ক ও পুলিশের মহাপরিদর্শকের কাছে দফাওয়ারী জবাব দেওয়ার জন্য প্রেরণ করা হয়। ৪ ডিসেম্বর পুলিশ সদর দফতর স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ের চিঠি পেয়েছে বলে জানা যায়।

পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় থেকে গত ২৫ অক্টোবর স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রণালয়ে এ সংক্রান্ত চিঠি পাঠানো হয়। ২৬ অক্টোবর স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রণালয় তা গ্রহণ করে।

চিঠিতে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, মতিউর রহমান নিজামী ২০১০ সালের ২৯ জুন আটক হন। পল্টন থানার ৫টি মামলায় ৩০ জুন সিএমএম কোর্ট তাকে ১৬ দিনের রিমান্ড মঞ্জুর করে। ২৬ জুলাই কদমতলী থানার আরেক মামলায় তাকে ৩ দিনের রিমান্ডে নেওয়া হয়। এ সময় তার সঙ্গে আইনজীবী ও আত্মীয়-স্বজনের দেখা করতে দেওয়া হয়নি। আটক থাকা অবস্থায় আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনালের প্রধানের আবেদনের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে ২২ জুলাই তাকে সন্দেহভাজন যুদ্ধাপরাধী হিসেবে গ্রেপ্তার দেখানো হয়। ২৯ ও ৩০ নবেম্বর পল্টন, রমনা ও কদমতলী থানার সব কটি মামলা থেকে অব্যাহতি পান। মতিহার থানা, কেরানীগঞ্জ থানা ও পল্লবী থানার মামলাগুলো ঝুঁলে আছে। আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনালের কারণে নিজামী ওই দুটি মামলার সার্টিফাইড কপি সংগ্রহ করতে পারছে না বলে অভিযোগ করা হয়েছে।

জামায়াতের সহকারী সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা ২০১০ সালের ১৩ জুলাই গ্রেপ্তার হন। ২২ জুলাই তাকে আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনাল আটক দেখায়। সব মামলা থেকে কাদের মোল্লা মুক্তি পেলেও কেরানীগঞ্জ ও পল্লবী থানার দুটি সাধারণ মামলায় তাকে আটক রাখা হয়েছে। জামায়াতের আরেক সহকারী সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল মোহাম্মদ কামারুজ্জামান আটক হন ২০১০ সালের ১৩ জুলাই। জামায়াতে ইসলামীর সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল আলী আহসান মুহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ ও নায়েব-ই-আমির দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদী গ্রেপ্তার হন ২০১০ সালের ২৯ জুন। বিএনপির স্থায়ী কমিটির সদস্য সালাহউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী আটক হন ২০১০ সালের ১৬ ডিসেম্বর। আটক অবস্থায় পরবর্তী সময়ে উল্লিখিত সবাইকে আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইবুনাল সন্দেহভাজন যুদ্ধাপরাধী হিসেবে গ্রেপ্তার দেখায়।
http://www.amadershomoy.net/content/2012/01/15/news0383.php

Ex-chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party jailed pending trial on war crimes charges

By Associated Press, Published: January 11

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A tribunal ordered the former chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party jailed Wednesday pending trial on charges he instigated deadly rampages against civilians during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Ghulam Azam, 89, a regional chief of Jamaat-e-Islami during the war and later the party’s leader in Bangladesh, is accused of having command-level authority in attacks — including slayings, arson, rape and looting — by then-Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators on people in what was then eastern Pakistan.

The International Crimes Tribunal in the capital, Dhaka, denied Azam’s request for bail Wednesday and ordered him jailed while awaiting a trial, which is expected by next year.
Azam denies the charges, and his supporters say the case against him is politically motivated. Trying the 1971 war crimes is a challenge for the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in part because many of the key defendants are her bitter political enemies.
International groups, including the New York-based Human Rights Watch, have urged the Bangladesh to ensure war crimes defendants receive fair trials by clarifying the definition of charges and allowing the accused to question the tribunal’s impartiality — currently not allowed under Bangldeshi law.
Despite Azam’s retirement from Jamaat-e-Islami in 2000, he is still thought to be the de facto leader of the party, a fierce rival of the ruling Awami League party led by Hasina, who is the daughter of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Jamaat-e-Islami is a key partner of a political alliance led by former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia. Two leaders of Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party face similar charges.
Azam went into exile after Pakistani soldiers surrendered to a joint force led by India on Dec. 16, 1971 and returned in 1978. He became party chief in 1991.
Azam arrived at Wednesday’s hearing in a wheelchair and his lawyer, Abdur Razzaq, said he had sought bail citing health complications. He said the denial of bail was wrong, and noted that Bangladeshi law related to the war crimes trial does not allow the defense to challenge the ruling in a higher court during the trial process.
But any person convicted for war crimes will be able to appeal the final verdict of the tribunal in the Supreme Court.
The three-judge panel, created by Hasina’s government in March 2010, also set Feb. 15 for a hearing on charges for a possible indictment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/ex-chief-of-bangladeshs-largest-islamic-party-jailed-pending-trial-on-war-crimes-charges/2012/01/11/gIQAperAqP_story.html

Toby Cadman with Al Jazeera on War Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh

Bangladesh 'war crimes mastermind' Ghulam Azam arrested

Bangladesh has arrested an Islamist leader on charges of masterminding war crimes during the 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan, lawyers say.

 

Mr Azam is one of the most high profile Jamaat-e-Islami leaders

Prosecutors say that Ghulam Azam, 89, was detained after the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) rejected his bail application.
They accuse Mr Azam of crimes against humanity - including murder, rape, arson and looting - in 1971.
He denies the charges, arguing that they are politically motivated.
Mr Azam, the former leader of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, is alleged to have created and led pro-Pakistan militias which carried out numerous murders and rapes during the nine-month war.
"He was the mastermind of all crimes against humanity during 1971," state prosecutor Syed Haider Ali told the AFP news agency.
The ICT rejected the bail request made on health grounds by Mr Azam, a wheelchair user, and ordered him to remain in jail while awaiting trial, which is expected next year.
In November, another Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Delawar Hossain Sayedee, went on trial accused of crimes against humanity during the country's independence struggle.
Mr Sayedee was the first of seven suspects set to face a tribunal on charges relating to the 1971 war.
Charges listed against him include genocide, rape and religious persecution - all of which he denies.

Prosecutors say such trials are vital for the establishment of democracy in Bangladesh, which has yet to come fully to terms with its violent past.

The special court is trying Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces, who were trying to stop Bangladesh becoming an independent nation.

It was set was set up in Dhaka in 2010 without any involvement by the United Nations.
It is not clear exactly how many people were killed. Independent researchers think that between 300,000 and 500,000 died, but the Bangladeshi government puts the figure at three million.
Correspondents say that Mr Azam is one of the most high profile Islamists to have been arrested since the nation's secular government set up the tribunal in 2010 to try suspects.
Two senior members from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are also facing war crime charges.

Both the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami have dismissed the court as a government "show trial", a view supported by Human Rights Watch who recently said that its legal procedures fell short of international standards.

Mr Azam's lawyer, Abdur Razzak, strongly criticised his arrest, which came after he was called to appear before the tribunal.

"We don't know yet the charges against him, the order was not correct. He is also very old. Still, our bail petition was rejected," he said.

Bangladesh was called East Pakistan until 1971 when the nine-month war of secession broke out.
The trials of war crimes suspects are likely to go on for many months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16502175

Bangladesh war crimes are "unfair" by Aljazeera

Odhikar Worries At Forced Disappearance

Odhikar, a Dhaka based human rights organization termed present law and order situation alarming through presenting various relevant data.    

According to the organization, the rate of deaths in custody and forced disappearing increased significantly in 2011.

Extrajudicial killing

At least 84 people lost their lives in extra-judicial killings in 2011 at the hand of members of law enforcement agencies, according to the human rights watchdog's annual report of 2011.

The number was 127 in 2010 and 154 in 2009, said the Dhaka-based rights watchdog.

Death in custody

The report on human rights situation in Bangladesh in 2011 said 140 people died in law enforcers' custody. The numbers was 109 in 2010 and 123 in 2009.

Forced disappearance

Thirty people were mysteriously 'disappeared' after they were held by perpetrators posed as member of law enforcement agencies last year. Sixteen people were abducted in 2010 and two was in 2009.

The report was formally disclosed at the Jatiya Press Club in the morning. Secretary of Odhikar Adilur Rahman Khan presented the report.

Border killing

31 innocent Bangladeshi people were killed by the BSF in 2011 while the number was 74 in 2010 and 96 and 62 in 2009, respectively.

Repression on women

Repression on women increased significantly across the country. The number of dowry-related violence shot up to 516 in 2011 from 319 in 2009 and 378 in 2010.

ZI Khan Panna, executive member of Bangladesh Bar Council, and Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, chief executive officer of Boishakhi Television, and Mizanur Rahman Khan, associate editor of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, were present at the programme.

http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=3267

[Washingtonpost] Bangladeshi jailed for Facebook post on prime minister, and 7 other posts that got people arrested

A Bangladeshi university lecturer has been sentenced to six months in jail after he made comments in a Facebook post about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sheikh Hasina. (Mark Lennihan - AP) Ruhul Khandakar was found guilty in absentia of contempt of court after he did not return from Australia, where he is studying, in response to a court summons.
Court officials say Khandakar’s comments implied he wanted the prime minister to die, BBC reports.
Government officials and police officers in recent years have wised up to the goings-on of Facebook, and with that has come an increasing number of arrests for what people post on the social network.
Khandakar’s post came on the heels of the death of one of the country’s most popular film makers, Tareq Masud, in a shocking road accident in August. “Tareq Masud died as a result of government giving licence to unqualified drivers. Many die, why does not Sheikh Hasina die,” Khandakar’s post reportedly read.
There are 2.25 million Facebook users in Bangladesh, according to SocialBakers.com.
In addition to talking about a prime minister’s death, here are seven other Facebook postings that have landed people in hot water:
1. Posting a photo of a corpse.
December 2010: Former New York EMT Mark Musarella pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct and disorderly conduct for posting a picture of a strangled woman to Facebook after he responded to an emergency call in Staten Island, the AP reports. Musarella avoided jail but lost his EMT license, according to Staten Island Live.
2. Posting your plans to rob a bank.
April 2011: Houston police tracked down and arrested four suspects in a bank robbery case after finding Facebook posts by bank tellers that read: “Get $$$” and “WIPE MY TEETH WITH HUNDEREDS [sic],” the Houston Chronicle reports,
3. Ranking the appearances of high school girls.
May 2011: An Illinois teenager was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly posting a list ranking the physical appearance of 50 girls at his high school. The list “described the girls by explicit, derogatory nicknames and assessed their physical appearance, sexual desirability, sexual activity and other characteristics,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports..
4. Posting a woman’s naked photos.
July 2011:Joseph Bernard Campbell pleaded guilty to charges of cyberstalking and unauthorized access to a computer after he broke into the e-mail accounts of 19 woman, stole risqué photographs of them, and made those photos their Facebook profile picture, the Flordia Statesman reports.
5. Encouraging riots, even if you are kidding.
August 2011: During the London riots, two British men in their early 20s were jailed for four years for posting Facebook messages encouraging people to vandalize a shop, the BBC reports. The men said it had only been a “joke.”
6. Mocking the dead.
September 2011: Twenty-five-year-old British man Sean Duffy was arrested for targeting tribute pages on Facebook, where he posted videos and messages that mocked the deaths of teenagers and their families, the Telegraph reports. Duffy pleaded guilty to two counts of sending malicious communications and was sentenced to 18 weeks for each of the offenses, to run concurrently. He was also given a five year Anti-Social Behaviour Order, and forbidden from accessing social media Web sites in the future.
7. Threatening an attack.
January 2012: New Jersey police charged a 14-year-old girl with posting threats of an attack on Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes, and asking for help in doing so, NJ.com reports.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bangladeshi-jailed-for-facebook-post-on-prime-minister-and-7-other-posts-that-got-people-arrested/2012/01/04/gIQAe3akaP_blog.html?wprss=blogpost

[CNN] Bangladesh convicts teacher for Facebook post about prime minister

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- A Bangladeshi university teacher was convicted Wednesday of wishing death to the prime minister on his Facebook wall.
The Bangladesh High Court handed down a six-month sentence to M Ruhul Amin on a contempt charge, saying he failed to comply with a court order after his remarks on Facebook, said deputy attorney general ABM Altaf Hossain.
Amin, who teaches Information Technology at Jahangirnagar University and is in Australia on a study leave, was not available for comment.
Hossain said Amin was tried in absentia.
After the August road accident death of Tareq Masud, a leading filmmaker in Bangladesh, Amin used his Facebook status to blame the government's negligence for many deaths in road accidents. He also wished death to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the court said.
Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Jahangir Hossain asked the government to take measures to bring Amin back from Australia so he can be jailed.
The court also asked the university to take action against Amin.
Bangladesh state transport authorities estimate up to 4,000 people every year die in road accidents. Independent researchers say they believe the actual number of deaths is much higher.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/04/world/asia/bangladesh-facebook-conviction/index.html?eref=edition_asia

[BBC] Bangladesh man given jail term for PM Hasina Facebook post

 

Ruhul Khandakar was found guilty in absentia of contempt of court after failing to return from Australia in response to a court summons.
Last year Mr Khandakar posted comments implying that he wanted Sheikh Hasina to die, high court officials said.
His comment reportedly related to Bangladesh's high road fatality rate.
It was posted following the death of one of the country's best known film makers, Tareq Masud, in a road accident in August, which left many Bangladeshis deeply shocked.
According to officials, Ruhul Khandakar blamed the government for the fact there are so many road deaths in Bangladesh.
"Tareq Masud died as a result of government giving licence to unqualified drivers. Many die, why does not Sheikh Hasina die?" his Facebook post said, according to court officials quoted by the AFP news agency.
When the comments appeared in the media, there were protests by the prime minister's supporters.
The high court ordered officials to return Mr Khandakar, who is studying in Australia, to Bangladesh. It also directed his university employers to take action against him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16413210

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Report on Democratic Environment and Human Rights situation 2011

Killing

· A leader of Awami Olama League has been killed at Goiripur, Mymensingh. The deceased, Jane Alam Jehadi was the President of Gouripur Upazilla Olama League. He was killed after he returned from a meeting of local Awami League.[1]

· A journalist has been killed at Gaibandha. Local representative of Gobindapur upazilla of the Daily Vorer Daak, Faridul Rahman was killed by unidentified personnel.[2]

· A student has been killed at the capital Dhaka. Shamim Hossain, a student of the University of Develoment Alternative was killed and his body was found at Zia Uddyan. Police have said that his death might be related with his relationship with a girl.[3]

· RAB personnel have kidnapped and killed 3 BNP activists at free school street, Dhaka. Among the murdered, Al Amin was President of Chhatradal, ward no. 50. His relatives have stressed that 5-6 RAB men kidnapped Al Amin from the street in front of hundreds of people. Later his body was found floating at a nearby river.[4]

· A BNP leader has been killed at Sadr upazilla, Barisal. The deceased, Farid Uddin was a member of the local Union Parisad and Secrertary of Ward no. 3 BNP. His body was found in the Kaligira river.[5]

· Co-president of BNP Kompaniganj Upazilla, Noakhali branch, Abdul Ohab has been killed by unidentified murderers. No suspects have been arrested after the incident.[6]

· BNP acting Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the secret killings happenings all over the country were govt. endorsed. He said that in the last 12 hours, 4 people were abducted and killed by govt. forces. He condemned the killing of Jessore district BNP finance secretary Nazmul Islam. [7]

· Jessore district BNP finance secretary and President of Jhikorgacha BNP Nazmul Islam has been killed. He was abducted from Mohammadpur in Dhaka. Later his body was found dead at Gazipur. He was returning from a family function with his family when a group of unidentified men stopped his car and abducted him. His family rushed to the local Police station but they refused to cooperate. Later his body was found. BNP has condemned the secret killing of its leaders one by one.[8]

· Philipine based human rights organization, The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearance (AFAD) has condemned the recent increase in kidnapping and murders by the law and order enforcing agency. The organization in a statement said that only in munshiganj, 8 people were killed in 1 week by law enforcing agencies. They said that most of the families have complained that the law agencies have picked up their relatives and killed them in custody.[9]

· BBC has aired a report in which it has stated that the number of Bangladeshis killed during the liberation war in 1971 is between 3 to 5 lacks. Bangladesh govt. however remains the number to be 30 lacs. Neural researchers have stated that although the exact number can not be stated, the probable number is 3 to 5 lacs.[10]

· Awami League activists have attacked and vandalized processions organized by BNP on the occasion of the Victory Day all over the country. In Jessore a Jubodal leader has been killed. At least 200 BNP activists have been injured all over the country. Awami League activists have attacked BNP activists at the memorials where both parties went to lay homage in commemoration of 40 years of Independence. The murdered Jubodal leader isMonir Hossain, Presidant of Hajipara Union Jubodal, Lakhipur. BNP central leaders have condemned the attacks all over the country.[11]

· Indian Border Patrolling Force, BSF has shot down 3 Bangladeshi’s. The incidents took place at Birapur, Dianjpur and Fulbari, Kurigram. In a survey, it has been found that at least 200 Bangladeshi’s have been killed at the hands of BSF over the past 3 years.[12]

· Police and cadres of Awami League has attacked BNP activists at Dhaka, sparking conflicts all over the country. The BNP activists had come to Dhaka to attend the Freedom Fighters Decoration ceremony arranged by BNP. But Police and Awami League activists held up the freedom fighters at different points in Dhaka. This sparked clashes at different points in Dhaka leading to clashes leaving hundreds injured and two dead. Public transports and police vehicles were vandalized. Awami League acting secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has praised his party workers for their bravery in the proceedings.[13]

· Indians have killed 3 Bangladeshis at the border between Bangladesh and India. BSF has handed over the dead bodies of 2 Bangladeshis that they killed on 15^th of December to Border Guard Bangladesh. Meanwhile, Indian controlled armed Khasia peoplehave killed 1 Bangladeshi and taken his body into India, refusing to hand it over at Jaintapur, Sylhet. [14]

· A day long strike has been observed at Jessore. The strike was called by BNP after the murder of Zhikargacha upazilla BNP President Nazmul Islam. All over Jessore the strike was observed by BNP and Jamaat activists.[15]

· An elderly union-level leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was killed at village Charkakra in Charkakra union under Companyganj upazila of Noakhali. The deceased, Abdul Wahab, popularly known as Wahab Raja, 60, was the vice president of Charkakra union BNP and also president of 7 No. ward BNP.[16]

· Jessore BNP leader Nazmul Islam, 42, was murdered in Gazipur district while he was returning to his home district from the capital by his car. Police said Nazmul, treasurer of Jessore district BNP, was abducted on Wednesday at about 11pm. They recovered his body from Salna Bridge area in Gazipur early yesterday and sent it to Gazipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.[17]

· One person was killed and another critically injured by their rivals in Kotakol launch terminal area under Lohagara upazila of Narail district. The deceased is Akkas Sheikh, 50, son of Arik Sheikh, and the injured is Sifat Sheikh, 40, brother of Arik Sheikh of Kotakol village.[18]

· At least two people were killed in Dhaka and Sylhet and dozens others injured in violent clashes between Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists and the police in the capital, and other cities including Rajshahi, Barisal, Narayanganj and Sirajganj. A number of passing vehicles were vandalised and over a dozen of them torched during the clashes in Dhaka and elsewhere. A series of homemade bombs were blasted at difference places in the capital sending a wave of panic among the city dwellers. The police detained about 250 people from different places in the capital alone.[19]

· One person was killed and 25 others were injured in a fierce clash between two rival groups at Mirzapur village in Narail Sadar upazila. The deceased is Omar Faruq, 40, son of Afzal Sheikh of the village. At least 50 houses and 25 shops at Mirzapur Bazar were ransacked while 50 cattle looted during the clash. [20]

· Bodies of two students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were recovered from the Chengerkhal river under number 8 Kandigaw Union of Sylhet. They were killed by a gang of robbers when they had gone there for a trip by boat with other friends. Both were second year students in the Chemical Engineering and Polymer (CEP) Science department at SUST.[21]

· A newsman and a trader were murdered in two upazilas of Gaibandha. The victims are Faridur Rahman Ranju, 48, Gobindagnaj upazila correspondent of daily Bhorer Dak and Abdur Razzak, a rice and jute trader of Sundarganj upazila market.[22]

· Police recovered the body of a Jatiya Party Dhaka city leader from a ditch beside Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai. The dead, Mahmudul Haque Khan Dipu, 43, was general secretary of JP Dhaka Cantonment thana unit and joint general secretary of JP Dhaka city (north). Police said the killers might have dumped the body at Balida of Dhamrai after shooting Dipu dead somewhere else. They said his head had bullet holes. [23]

Torture Vandalizing and Harassment

· Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) allegedly beat up president of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) of the university unit. The victim is Bayazid Haque Rony, a final year student of Agriculture Faculty of BAU. Secretary of ICS BAU unit Solaiman Hossain said the BCL men beat up Bayazid without any reason while president of BAU BCL unit Shamsuddin Al Azad claimed that Bayazid along with other ICS activists were distributing leaflets opposing the trial of the war criminals.[24]

· Five activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) were injured at Rajshahi University (RU) as Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) workers attacked their procession on the campus.[25]

· A protest meeting of BNP came under attack and its party office was ransacked allegedly by ruling party activists, leaving five people wounded in Betagi upazila of Barguna district. Activists of Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League, riding on 10/12 motorcycles, attacked and damaged the BNP party office at Jalisha Bazaar Monday night following an altercation between two activists of AL and BNP.[26]

· Bakerganj Govt College principal's office, examination hall and class rooms were vandalised yesterday allegedly by the BCL activists forcing the authorities to cancel the half-yearly test examinations of the college.[27]

· The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) beat up an engineer as he refused to pay the money demanded by them. Injured Nazrul Islam, working as the project engineer of Malitha Traders for last three months on the campus, was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.[28]

· Leaders and activists of the Awami League and the opposition BNP were locked in a clash on the premises of the National Mausoleum at Savar over placing wreaths on the occasion of the Victory Day. The incident left at least 15 people injured. The clash erupted between Awami Sechhashebak League and Jatiyatabadi Sechhashebak Dal over taking place and placing wreaths at the National Mausoleum.[29]

· A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men of Rajshahi University (RU) unit stopped a RU department final examination as a BCL man was not permitted to attend it. Brahibin Karim alias Emon, a student of Accounting and Information Management Department of RU, along with 10 other BCL activists including Juwel Rana and Delwar Hossain, drove out the examinees and locked the university hall where the examination was scheduled at 1:30pm.[30]

· At least 10 people including three policemen were injured in a clash between the activists of AL and BNP at Samirmunshir Hat under Senbagh upazila of Noakhali district. The injured are SI Abul Kashem, his assistant Sumon Barua and constable Salauddin, BNP activists Md Selim, Md Solaiman, Nizam Uddin, Md Ali and AL activists Sahabuddin, Md Omar Faruk and Babar Ali.[31]

· At least 20 houses of BNP supporters were vandalised allegedly by Awami League (AL) men at village Titarkhapara in Magura Sadar upazila. Police quoted locals as saying that the incident took place after BNP supporter Altaf Hossain felled a mahogany tree over a land adjacent to his house at around 9:00am.[32]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and injured at least 5 leaders of Jashod Chhatraleague and Chhatramoitri at Islami University, Kustia. The Ex Presidents of Jasod Chhatraleague, Patla and Chhatramoitri, Nuruzzaman Koel were injured. Sources said that the organizations clashed over the division of graft money concerning the University.[33]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and vandalized the reunion at Govt. BL College, Barisal. The reunion, organized by the Alumni Association of the institute began but was interfered by City Chhatraleague Secretary Sheikh Shahjalal Sujon and goons. The alumni association gas strongly condemned the attack and demanded the arrest and punishment of the Chhatraleague leader.[34]

· Sromik League and BNP supported officials have clashed at the Dhaka City Corporation building. The clashes took place over the govt.’s decision to divide Dhaka City Corporation in 2 parts. At least 12 supporters of BNP were injured during the clashes.[35]

· Awami League activists have attacked and vandalized at least 17 homes of BNP activists. Awami League leader Shahidul Master led the attacks that took place at Magura.[36]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and vandalized Rajshahi Polytechnique Institute after a Chhatraleague activist was injured at the hands of Chhatramoitri. Chhatramoitri attacked the leader over a small affair. [37]

· Chhatraleague have kicked out 8 students from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib hall. They claim that the students were activists of BNP.[38]

· BNP declared general strike has been held to full extent. Police haveattacked BNP leader and Mayor of Dhaka City Sadek Hossain khoka and other leaders all over the country. The strike was called in protest of the govt.’s decision to divide Dhaka city into 2 city corporations.[39]

· Chhatraleague has called a strike in demand of defiling a case that was filed against them on charges of extortion at Sylhet Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. But they changed their decision manyu times leading to confusion among the general students.[40]

· Chhatraleague activists at Chittagong Medical College have attacked Chhatrashibir activists. The attackers are all on bail on the case of murdering Abidur Rahman, a 3^rd year student of Chittagong Medical College.[41]

· Activists of Chhatramoitri have attacked and injured a teacher at Govt. Azizur Rahman College. The attack took place as the Chhatramoitri activists demanded extortion money from the teacher.[42]

· Police have attacked the procession organized at Mohammadpur, Dhaka and injured at least 30. BNP acting Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have condemned the attack. He also condemned the attack on Dhaka City Corporation Mayor and BNP leader Sadeq Hossain Khoka. He said that Khoka was a freedom fighter and the govt. has insulted the freedom fighters through the attack.[43]

· BNP and Awami League activists have clashed at Burimari, Lalmanirhat leaving injured. Local UP Chairman and BNP leaderAsir Uddin Ahmed said that Awami activists led the attacks.[44]

· Police have attacked and vandalized a procession organized by Bangladesh Jamaat E Islami, Sylhet branch. Police arrested 3 and injured 10 during the attack. Sylhet Jamaat Ameer Advocate Ehsanul Mahbub Zobaer has condemned the attack and has said that the govt. Is trying to break the morale of thee people by not letting them express their views on national issues.[45]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and vandalized a market at old Dhaka. Chhatraleague activists of Jagannath University, Sohel, Murtoza, Selim attacked the shops after they refused to give goods at discount prices.[46]

· Awami League activists have attacked the motorcade of leader of the Opposition, Begum Khaleda Zia at the National Memorial at Savar. The motorcade was kept waiting for a long time. BNP Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as condemned the incident and has said that the leader of the opposition had not been given her proper protocol and was kept waiting.[47]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked the activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir and severely injured 1 at kabi NAzrul Islam University, Trisal, Mymensing. The injured include ex President of University Chhatrashibir, Golamun Nabi Zaed. The leader was beaten with rods and sticks and severely injured. Police have arrested 2 leaders of Chhatrashibir.[48]

· BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has stated that the govt. had led preplanned attacks on the BNP activists who came to join the reception organized by BNP for the freedom fighters. He said that at least 300 activists were arrested and 250 were injured.[49]

· Attacks have been made on BNP offices at Magura. At least 4 Chhatradal leaders were injured and bomb blasts were heard at the spots. The leaders were severely injured and hospitalized.[50]

· Chhatraleague activists have harassed the Chief Doctor at the Medical Center at the University of Rajshahi. The Doctor, Nadira Begum was attacked after she refused to give an ambulance to the Chhatraleague leaders. Ex President of Chhatraleague, Rajshahi University branch, Ibrahim Hossain moon led the attack.[51]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and harassed the Vice Chancellor of the University of Jagannath. Another 13 officials of the University were also injured during the attack. University Chhatraleague convener Saiful Islam and other leaders harassed the VC after he refused to appoint Chhatraleague nominated candidates in the teaching spots.[52]

· Chhatraleague activists have attacked and injured a Chhatraleague leader at Sonaimuri, Noakhali. The injured leader, Akram Hossain was severely injured and robbed of 1 lac 20 thousand taka.[53]

· Clashes between 2 fractions of Juboleague at Sunamganj has left 25 injured included OC of Chatok Police. The clashes took place between supporters of district Juboleague convener Barrister Enamul Kabir and Secretary of district Awami League Nurul Huda.[54]

· Chhatraleague and Police have attacked Chhatraleague activists at Azam Khan College, Barisal. Chhatradal activists were preparing for a procession when they were attacked, leaving 20 injured. Police have filed a case against 200 Chhatradal activists. House raids were made at their homes.[55]

· Police have cordoned and sealed off BNP central office at Naya Paltan. No party activists were let into the office except a few central leaders. Police also arrested a few pedestrians who were walking by. Police did not let the party to hold its pre declared meeting.[56]

· A Chhatraleague leader has beaten up a teacher at Kurigram Govt. College. College Chhatraleague President Tosaddek Hossain led the attacks on lecturer Sadaqat Hossain.[57]

· Police have attacked a procession organized by Bangladesh Jamaat E Islami at Syedpur. Police arrested Jamaat leader Goalm Faruq from the procession which was organized to protest the activities of the International War Crimes Tribunal.[58]

· Awami League activists have attacked BNP activists at Chitolmari, Bagerhat. The BNP activists were going to attend the road march organized by the 4 party alliance. UNO and OC of the area were also injured during the attack.[59]

· Hundreds of activists of BNP and Jamaat were injured when returning from the procession led by Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the opposition and Chairperson of BNP. The incident took palce at different places around Kustia. Awami League goons attacked the activists of BNP and Jamaat.[60]

· Chhatraleague activists have vandalized Tongi Govt. College in demand of elections of the student union. [61]

· At least 10 people were injured as Awami League and BNP clashed at Sunamganj. The clash took place between the supporters of Rafiqul Islam Talukdar and Mamunur Rashid.[62]

· Awami League and BNP activists have clashed leaving 50 injured at Kumarkhali, Kustia. Ward no. 11 Awami League secretary Alauddin led the attack.[63]

· Awami League activists have attacked and vandalized 3 cars of Bangladesh Jamaat E islami at Kolorowa, Satkhira. At least 50 people were injured during the attack. The Jamaat men were going to attend the road march arranged by the 4 party alliance.[64]

Torture Vandalizing and Harassment

· Member of the BNP Central Committee MK Anwar has said that the people accused of being war criminals can not be convicted under the current laws. He also demanded the withdrawal of the cases filed against BNP central leaders.[65]

· Awami League activists have attacked and vandalized a commemoration ceremony organized to honor freedom fighters at Pakundia, Kishoreganj. The vandalizers were supporters of local MP, Dr. Md. Abdul Mannan.[66]

· Police have attacked and injured 11 activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir at Rangpur. Police also arrested 9 activists from the procession.[67]

· Police have foiled a rally organized by Narayanganj district BNP in protest of the murder of a BNP activist Arif. Police stopped the procession at the beginning.[68]

· Police have foiled a procession organized by BNP in protest of the secret killings and murders by law and order enforcing agencies. BNP has claimed that 85 of its activists have been arrested from the procession. Police didn’t even let the BNP leaders get out of the premises of their party office.[69]

· Madrasa Chhatra Oikka Parisad has demanded that the govt. take back its decision of not letting Madrasa students to get admission into the National University. The organization said that the govt. took the decision suddenly and is not even paying any heed to the high courts ruling.[70]

· Police have obstructed Jubodal, Narayanganj branch from holding its inauguration meeting. Police cordoned off the office and barred the activists from entering the office at Narayanganj.[71]

· Police have obstructed meetings organized by BNP and Jamaat at Nababganj, Dhaka. The OC of local police station said that there were restrictions over meetings of BNP and Jamaat.[72]

· Awami League activists have shut down the Press club at Mirjaganj, Potuakhali. The leaders claimed that the news of activities of local Awami League was not being covered fairly by the newspapers.[73]

· Police have attacked the procession of Madrasa Chhatra Oikka Parishad and arrested its convener Hafez Mohiuddin Masum. The madrasa students were protesting the decision of National University, not to admit Madrasa students into the university. Police attacked the procession, arrested 7 and tortured them at the police station, alleged the organization.[74]

· Police have cordoned off the central office of BNP at Naya Paltan, Dhaka. Although there were no programmes of the party, the Police still cordoned the office and kept any leaders from entering the office. BNP secretarty Mirza Fakhrul Isam Alamgir has stated that the govt. is acting in an undemocratic way by keeping the police stationed at the party office all the time.[75]

Democratic Environment and HR Situation

· The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday dismissed Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Saydee’s petition seeking explanation on Justice Nizamul Haq’s legality to chair the tribunal. The three-member tribunal also termed the petition contemptuous and unprecedented.[76]

· Human rights organisations, as well as, civil society members, expressed serious concerns over rise in disappearances and extra-judicial killings in the country. BNP leader and former councillor of Dhaka City Corporation ward-56, Chowdhury Alam, who has been missing since June 25, 2010, is yet to be traced. The High Court, on July 19, 2010, directed the inspector-general of police and director-general of Rapid Action Battalion, to take steps to find Alam soon. No progress has been made in this regard, said his family.[77]

· Local administration imposed section 144 at Goalabazar in Osmaninagar, Balaganj as local BNP and Awami League called separate meetings at the same venue.[78]

· The International Crimes Tribunal rejected two petitions of detained BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, MP, seeking stay of the proceedings against him and the recall of the tribunal’s order which took cognisance of the charges. In his petitions, Salauddin appealed to the tribunal to abide by international laws, conventions and covenants on war crimes, the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 and the Evidence Act 1872. He also appealed to the tribunal to telecast the proceedings, allow foreign lawyers to defend him, define in detail the crimes against humanity and other offences stipulated in the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 and allow him 11 months to prepare his defence as the investigators took 11 months to bring the charges against him.[79]

· Two cases were filed against 525 people in connection with a clash between Awami League and BNP activists over joining the BNP’s road march towards Khulna in Chitalmari uapzila headquarters in Bagerhat district. Local Awami League leader Keramat Ali filed a case with Chitalmari thana early Monday against 175 named and 250 unnamed people.[80]

· The leader of the opposition in the parliament, Khaleda Zia, said that the government was committing crimes against humanity through secret killing, terrorising people and obstructing opposition programmes to hide its failures and warned taking to the streets if it did not stop such acts. Khaleda,at the party’s reception to war heroes held on the day also asked the government to ‘stop secret killing, terrorising people and obstructing opposition programmes. We will, otherwise, have no option but to take to the streets.’[81]

· The government appointed administrators to 61 zila parishads (district councils); most of them are top Awami League leaders of the districts. The appointment came about nine months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced in parliament that the government will appoint chairmen to all zila parishads to make the local government stronger.[82]

· At least 15 persons were killed and 759 injured in political violence throughout the country last month, rights organisation Odhikar revealed. According to Odhikar's November report, 27 incidents of internal violence took place in the ruling party and 10 in BNP. In them, four people were killed and 267 injured in Awami League and 163 persons were injured in BNP.[83]

· The High Court rejected two separate petitions filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for quashing the proceedings against them in Barapukuria coalmine corruption case. Delivering a verdict on the petitions, the HC also vacated its earlier order that stayed the proceedings against the top Jamaat leaders.[84]

· BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that secret killings have been taking place 'under the shield of the state' and opposition, especially BNP, activists are being victims of such killings. The ruling party resorted to secret killings to suppress and oppress the opposition, he said. [85]

· Attorneys to the defendants of the ’10 truckloads of weapons’ case boycotted the court during the interrogation of witnesses. State attorneys started interrogating witnesses intentionally disregarding the sequence of witnesses. Defendants’ attorneys argued with the state attorneys and sought Judge’s intervention against such unruly process but the Judge did not pay attention to the misconduct of state attorneys. Later defendants’ attorneys expressed disappointment and said to press that they did not expect such partial and bias attitude in the court.[86]

· A shocking picture of human right situation in Bangladesh appeared in monthly report of Human rights Organization Adhikar. In November 2011, BSF murdered 3 Bangladeshi citizens at the border, kidnapped two others, 14 journalist has been harassed and assaulted by criminals and 14 died and 159 injured in political clashes[87].

· The witness appeared before court in Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Syeedi’s war crime and acknowledged while he was questioned by defendant’s attorney that he did not witness the war crimes took place under Mr. Sayeedi’s command but heard of it from other people from the locality. The witness could not give satisfactory answers to questions on his validity of taking part in war of independence during the interrogation[88].

· Surprising facts was revealed during interrogation of the first witness of Jamaat Leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi. One of the informants that the witness mentioned was born in 1972. Moreover, the first witness failed to provide solid information that proves that Mr. Sayeedi involved in war crimes. The witness is accused in several cases of looting, dowry, etc. which challenges the vow of telling truth he took before court[89].

· As interrogation of the first witness in Jamaat leader Mr. Sayeedi’s war crime case went on, defendants’ attorneys presented some information that renders the witness as an illegitimate one. The witness was a 12-year boy in 1971 and in Pirojpur he is known as a criminal and fraud. He allegedly “made up” as a freedom fighter and now as a witness of war crime[90].

· During the trial of Jamaat leader Mr. Sayeedi’s war crime case, defendant’s attorneys were repeatedly intercepted by state attorneys in their speech. The witness carried small slips for his questioning which was unusual and suspicious. Moreover, the defendant received only 600 pages of the 3400-page document on Sayeedi’s accusation. The court also rejected three appeals on Mr. Sayeedi’s side[91].

· Over 20 thousand people from Pirojpur signed a petition and submitted to Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The petition stated that the signees bore witness that Mr. Sayeedi is innocent and all allegations against him were nothing but lies[92].

· A group of 23 including 8 attorneys led by Advocate Tajul Islam Chowdhury toured at Pirojpur to talk to the ‘witnesses’ of Jamaat leader Sayeedi’s war crime. On a press conference he said to the press that on their tour at Pirojpur they were threatened by Chhatra League members and cadres and could not visit some spots that relate the accusations of murder, looting, etc. They also said that the whole tribunal was a sham and state attorneys were only representing frauds as their “witnesses”[93].

· Charge sheets of war crime cases against three Jamaat leaders were submitted after 18 months of their arrests. The state defense in the cases took 18 months in investigation and preparing the charge sheets. Defendants’ attorneys pleaded to court that the Jamaat leaders had already did 18 months in prison, therefore they deserve proper justice[94].

· Attorneys of Mr. Sayeedi pleaded to court for removal of the chairman of International tribunal. They said that the chairman read out verdict in Mr. Sayeedi’s absence and conducted the trial in place of a judge. However, the court rejected this plea[95].

· Police contained the demonstration organized BNP against ruling party’s rampant acts of desperate repression in the head office premises. Police also foiled their procession and resisted men to convene. RAB and police force shown down to pose threats of attack to the BNP activists[96].

· International Crime Tribunal rejected three pleads of Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury. The accused Mr. Chowdhury in the so-called war crime trial pleaded for permission to appoint a foreign attorney, etc[97].

· Mass arrest of opposition party activists took place in Dhaka after rampant explosions, arsons and riots in the capital city. 12 cases were filed against 10 thousand unknown and 120 known opposition party activists. Mobile court rushed in and jailed and sentenced many people in many places in the country[98].

· The second and third witnesses in Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi’s war crime trial turned out as frauds and known criminals. They were “made-up” just as the first one to stand before court in return of monetary benefits from ruling party said the defendant’s attorneys. Moreover, the second witness failed to recollect what his “roles” were during war of independence as a freedom fighter[99].

· Law minister said to press that a group was conspiring to foil the trial process of the war crime tribunal. He added that the tribunal was conducting trial process according to the existing laws. The ill-willed group, he said, was naming it ‘international tribunal’ to addle the people[100].

· A faction of Dhaka Journalist Association arranged a memorial service in memory of the martyrs in 1971. The leaders of the association made speech on the recent so-called war crime tribunals and said that it was evidently an attempt to cleanse out the opposition leaders[101].

· On a conference, member of BNP’s permanent committee stated that the present war crime tribunal is a dark attempt to divide the nation. He also said that Awami government in the past let 195 known war criminals go free but now they arrested famous leaders of opposition who were not known to be involved in any rapport with Pakistani force in 1971. In another meeting he said that the new division of Dhaka a part of a grave conspiracy[102].

· Awami League’s senior general secretary said that the real war criminals are the BNP people and Jamaat is their collaborator. He denied that BNP attempted to protest against public and political issues. In his opinion, all the protests by BNP were for one target which was foiling war crime trial[103].

· Barrister Razzak and other attorneys of Jamaat leader Mr. Sayeedi in his war crime case had a meeting with a US diplomat and war crime expert. The attorneys expressed their shock in the present judicial situation at the case of Mr. Sayeedi. They also said that their right of justice had been violated by the ruling party. He expressed similar views on an interview with radio Tehran[104].

· World renowned newspapers Herald Tribune, New York Times and The Economist expressed similar news reports on war crime tribunal in Bangladesh. Their reports said that the war crimes were done by Pakistani forces in 1971. The presently accused ones had nothing to do with war crime. Therefore, the tribunal is a conspiracy to destroy the opposition party[105].

· On hearing of Salahudding Qader Chowdhury’s petition, he pleaded for cancellation of the so-called international Crime Tribunal. He pointed out why this tribunal is against the national constitution and biased position of the Tribunal chairman. He also described how his attorneys were harassed by police and in other ways[106].

· Madrassa Students’ Welfare Association submitted a memorandum to the chairman of National University that demands stopping all discriminatory ways to restrict admissions of Madrassa students. The memorandum said that the Madrassa students had always had good results. The scam that the Madrassa students are not eligible because they lack ability to speak English must be ignored by the authority[107].

· Editor-in-Chief of the national daily New Age and reporter David Bergman were at court on contempt hearing. The defendants read out their opinions and explanations and said that they had no intention to destroy the image of judiciary but only intention was presenting an important issue about war crimes tribunal before people[108].

· On an interview with national daily Sangram, Porfessor Golam Azam, Naib-E-Amir to Jamaat said that scam in the name of war crime trial is a retributive way to destroy opposition by Awami League. They were avenging their defeat in 2001 national election by tagging the opposition leaders as war criminals[109].

· CMHDR, a social movement from Bangladesh held a meeting where the leaders of the movement expressed shock the clear attempts of ruling party to destroy opposition by murder and involuntary disappearances. They added that the law enforcement forces turned into ruling party’s private security agency[110].

· In a news report, facts about ruling party’s judicial ways of political retribution were revealed. In this regime, the ruling party made records in the nation’s history. In three years, 1 lac opposition activists were accused in 20 thousand cases. Among these cases, there were 25 thousand Jamaat leaders and the plaintiffs were cops[111].

· A committee led by additional law minister pleaded rejection of 68 cases against ruling party leaders. Including these the number of rejected cases would be 7 100. The minister said that more cases would be pleaded for rejection[112].

· Court ruled discharge appeal of Nizami and Mujaheed, leaders of Jamaat in the case of Barapukuria Coal Mine case. The rule followed a hearing and discussion of a division bench in high court. Barrister Razzak the defendant’s attorney conducted in defense of the defendants[113].

· The court denied the appeal of quashing the Zia Orphanage Trust case of Begum Khaleda Zia, the opposition leader. Defendant’s attorney said that they will plead against this verdict. In that case, Begum Zia was accused of embezzlement[114].

· Additional Law Minister said to press that the ‘ghost’ of war criminals were now controlling BNP leader. He added that BNP and Jamaat, all were connected to war crime and they would be brought to justice. He also said that charge sheet on Jamaat Naib-e-Amir would soon be produced[115].

· Awami League government was planning on arresting 26000 more opposition men. Since the election Awami League government had been keeping the opposition busy at courts in different cases. Many of the top leaders and numerous activists are now in jail. Many disappeared, murdered, their bodies mutilated and tortured in the names of remand[116].

· BNP-Jamaat boycotted the Comilla City corporation election. Many nominated candidates from ruling party are criminals in murder cases. Only two among the candidates studied up to secondary level[117].

· In celebrating the reunions of freedom fighters, the festivity was ruined by the cops. Many BNP leaders were arrested by police. Police barred 150 vehicles carrying freedom fighters from entering capital city. On the program, freedom fighters and BNP men were convening to Dhaka[118].

· Chairman of Human Rights Commission said that human rights would be violated if there were mismatch between interests of government and interests of people. He added that government had failed to gain trust of the people and lost all that it had. He also added that the present war crimes tribunal was not following the right procedures[119].

· BNP’s general secretary said in one public meeting that government was trying to make BNP leaderless. On Orphanage Trust case, he said that it was financed by donation. Whether or not, the land it was built on was overpriced was not Awami League’s concern[120].

· A defamation case was filed against Col. Oly. The case accuses Col. Oly on saying publicly that Sheikh Hasina attempted to bribe him to join Awami League. The court decided dates for hearing. Oly’s speech was headliner in national dailies[121].

· In Chittagong Medical College, student politics is banned but News reports say that Chhatra League members are into extortion, vandalizing, looting, etc. around the campus. The factions of Chhatra league are always in conflict and the campus is engaged in various programs and outsiders[122].

· The main opposition BNP yesterday demanded that the government immediately stop the proceedings of the war crimes tribunal. The party also called on the international community to raise objections to what it said was the tribunal's violation of human rights in an extra-judicial manner. Former BNP Law minister Moudud observed that it made no sense to legitimise the tribunal's “illegal and unconstitutional trial proceedings by participating in its farcical activities to victimise political opponents”. "The BNP has no confidence in this tribunal. It believes that in the existing legal structure, the tribunal is nothing but a servile, rubber-stamp organisation," he said in a written statement.[123]

· The International Crimes Tribunal has dismissed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's plea that its chairman Justice Nizamul Huq can become biased against him in the ongoing war crimes trial. In its order the three-member tribunal called Sayedee's petition against its chairman "contemptuous, outrageous, and unheard of".[124]

· Ignoring widespread criticism and protests, parliament hurriedly passed a bill to split Dhaka City Corporation into two. It took only four minutes and a few seconds to pass the bill, bringing about some major changes to the Local Government (City Corporation) Act, 2009. The president could even sign the bill today, thus making the amendment effective.[125]

· A prosecution witness has given false statements against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee before the International Crimes Tribunal, said Sayedee's counsels.[126]

· Awami League (AL) acting joint secretary Mahbub-Ul- Alam Hanif on Wednesday said, time will come when the country men will demand trial against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for siding with the war criminals. He was addressing a protest rally organised by Awami Jubo League.[127]

· The government Okayed the withdrawal of 68 more "politically-motivated" cases filed against Awami League leaders during the tenure of the last government. Speaking to reporters following the meeting at the home ministry, State Minster for Law Qamrul Isalm said “There are no cases involving any senior AL leader. All these cases are against leaders among the lower tier of the party.[128]

· The High Court rejected a petition filed by Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for scrapping the proceedings of a case against him filed under the arms act in connection with the 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong. The court rejected his petition considering that it was not placed before the HC.[129]

· Two Dhaka courts sent seven Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists to jail, hours after their surrender, in connection with two cases filed for damaging vehicles, assaulting police and obstructing them from discharging their duties on September 19. Metropolitan Magistrate Keshob Roy Chowdhury sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers in a case filed with Paltan Police Station while Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed a similar order after refusing their bail petition in the other case filed with Ramna Police Station.[130]

· BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government is filing cases against Khaleda Zia with a view to implement a conspiracy to keep her away from the next general elections. “Zia Charitable Trust is a private organisation. The government has no link with it. But the prime minister had ordered to file a case against Khaleda Zia accusing her of buying land for the charity. This is nothing but a conspiracy to declare her disqualified for the next elections,” he told a rally at the city's Tejgaon truck stand.[131]

· Four bombs went off at a market in Sarsha upazila during the day-long hartal enforced in the district by local BNP, protesting the killing of Jhikorgachha upazila unit president in Gazipur.[132]

· Comilla City Jamaat Ameer Kazi Deen Mohammad has decided to boycott January 5 election to Comilla City Corporation in protest against the use of EVM system and non-deployment of army in the polls.[133]

· At least 15 people, including four policemen, were injured in a clash between police and local AL men over an incident of stalking during the Victory Day programme at Faridpur upazila in Pabna. The police and local people said a number of AL men were harassing the women during the Victory Day parade organised by the upazila administration at Bonwarinagar football field at Faridpur upazila.[134]

· Police arrested four activists of Jatiyatabadi Secchasebok Dal (JSD) from Goal Chamot area of the district town while they were trying to bring out a procession. The arrestees are Faruk Hosain, secretary of JSD Mach Char union, Iqbal Hosain, Sajal and Sazzad, said police.[135]

· Police arrested four more BNP leaders, including Chitalamari upazila BNP general secretary, in connection to clash with Awami League. The arrested were identified as Chitalmari upazila BNP general secretary Mominul Haq Tulu Biswas, 45, and local leaders Monirul Haq, 40, Moshiur Rahman Dalim, 38, and Babul Sheikh, 30.[136]

· Police arrested a leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir at Baghri Bazar in Rajapur upazila morning. The arrestee is Firoz Abdullah, president of Shibir upazila unit of Jhalakathi District.[137]

· Police detained 66 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami in connection with Sunday's clashes in different districts and during their countrywide demonstrations yesterday in protest against what the agitators said 'government's repression and police attack' on opposition men. [138]

· Six people, including five activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir of Joypurhat Government College, were arrested from Joypurhat on charge of preventing police and doing vandalism on the campus this September. The arrested are accused in a case filed by police on September 19. Police also held a worker of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Shah Alam, 37, of Kalai upazila, Joypurhat yesterday.[139]

· Police arrested nine leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, a student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, from a procession here. Altaf Hossain, officer in-charge of Rangpur police station, said they picked up the nine from near the party's Shapla office.[140]

· Police noon arrested two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in Kaliganj upazila town on charge of holding rally without permission. The Shibir men held the rally demanding release of the central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami.[141]

· Police arrested an activist of BNP district unit from a procession in the district town noon. The arrestee is Anwar Hossain, 25. The main opposition brought out the procession protesting the judicial probe that found former home minister Altaf Hoaasin Chowdhury's involvement in 2001 post-polls persecution.[142]

· Police morning arrested four leaders of Chitalmari upazila BNP in connection with Sunday's Awami League (AL)-BNP clashes that left Chitalmari UNO and OC injured. The arrestees are Chitalmari upazila BNP general secretary Mominul Haq Tulu Biswas,45, and three other local leaders--Babul Sheikh,30, Monirul Haq,40, and Moshiur Rahman Dalim,38.[143]

· The much-awaited trial in the 10-truck arms haul cases began in a Chittagong court, seven years after the biggest-ever arms recovery in the country. Most of the defence lawyers, however, boycotted the court at one stage, accusing the prosecution lawyer of not following the law. [144]

· BNP has requested the inhabitants of Comilla to boycott the city corporations election as it was being held under Electronic Voting System. The party has decided to boycott the elections.[145]

· BNP acting Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that mayor of Dhaka City Corporation Sadek Hossain Khoka was knifed at police custody. He accused Chhatraleague of committing the attack. [146]

· Awami League supported lawyers have broken into the office of the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and taken the photos of Ex President Ziaur Rahman ,MAulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and MAG OSmani. They also injured 2 BNP supporting lawyers. Deputy Attorney General led the attacks.[147]

· Looting has taken place at the home of Chittagong Jamaat Ameer Maulana Shamsul Islam MP. The looters took valuables and parts from his car.[148]

· The editor of Half monthly ‘GonoMichil’, FMA Razzaq has not been able to go to his house in fear of terrorists. Earlier the terrorists had attacked him and severely injured him. He said that he could not go to his house in fear of his life.[149]

· Home minister Adv. Shahara Khatun has said called to stop the activities of BNP and Jamaat. She said that the govt. is working for the development of the country but these parties are trying to obstruct the activities.[150]

· The court has sent 27 activists of Bangladesh Islam Chhatrashibir to jail at Comilla on a case filed in September on accounts of obstructing the police. The activists went to court to extend their bail which they received from the High Court.[151]

· 7 jamaat leaders including Dhaka City Jamaat secretary Hamidur Rahman Azad MP, Central Nayeeb E Ameer A K M NAzeer Ahmed and others were sent to 2 days remand by the court. They were arrested on a case of explosion and vandalization.[152]

· Govt. has appointed 61 district administrators, all of them being leaders of the ruling Awami League. Experts have criticized the decision of the govt. as this will conflict with the constitution and create imbalance in the local administration.[153]

· The court has granted bail to 23 of the 27 accused in the case of murder of Mayor of Banagram Upazilla, Natore. Among the accused are leaders of local Awami League and Chhatraleague.[154]

· Awami League Presidium Member and Minister of Jute, Abdul Latif Siddique has said that the people accused of war crimes should be punished without trial. He also said that they should be killed without trial.[155]

· Recentley the Jute minister stated in a discussion that people involved in crimes against humanity should be directly sentenced to death instead of trial. Besides, the state minister of law declared that the trial of 7-8 war criminals including Ghulam Azam would start within the next two months. Jamaat has protested such statements from the ruling party AL’s ministers dubbing those as unfair, illegal and against human rights. The party also expressed concerns that the Government was unfairly intervening in the trial and such comments from the ministers bore testimony to that.[156]

· .Corruption has taken a devastating form in the country. The Anti-Corruption Commission is a toothless tiger. Conflict is not only in national level but also in party level today. Besides, Qader Siddique, a veteran and renowned freedom fighter, alleged that Awamee League has redefined the Liberation War. Anyone with Awamee League is a freedom fighter but against it is a Razakar(traitor). He alleged that AL has even made him a Razakar.[157]

· Former law minister Moudud Ahmed read out the demands at a press conference at BNP’s Naya Paltan headquarters in the capital. The BNP has no confidence in this tribunal. It believes that in the existing legal structure, the tribunal is nothing but a servile, rubber-stamp organisation.Moudud observed that it made no sense to legitimise the tribunal's illegal and unconstitutional trial proceedings by participating in its farcical activities to victimise political opponents. Referring to the recommendations of Stephen Rapp, US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, the opposition lawmaker said that they agree with the recommendations. The tribunal cannot be independent and transparent without implementation of those suggestions.[158]

· Comilla district BNP has threatened to boycott the upcoming Comilla City Corporation polls if the Election Commission uses Electronic Voting Machine and does not deploy the army, ATN Bangla and ntv reported yesterday.Local leaders also said they would submit a memorandum to the commission, requesting not to use EVMs in the January 5 election. On the oher hand, voters are still in dark about EVM.[159]

· The International Crimes Tribunal(ICT) formed by the government to

try the crimes against humanity in 1971 is losing its acceptability to national and international crisis. The accused are worried of biased trial at a cangaroo court. The government is allegedly influencing the trial process and harassing its political opponent through the trial. Many of the international observers have already dubbed the trial a farce.[160]

· While talking to the journalists after a function, Barrister Rafiq Ul Haque said that he did not want to say anything politically. As an ordinary person, he felt sad for the decision of split of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). It could not be any constructive decision. He didn’t understand how the government would tackle the complication of dividing the DCC.[161]

· Local AL and Jubo League leaders have set up a separate river port locally known as ‘ghat’ and charging people for using it, although there is a publicly leased port just 2 kilometers away. The leasee has complained to the district commissioner and blamed the local leaders for deactivating the public port.[162]

· The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and 11 other parties urged the Government

to withdraw the decision to divide Dhaka City Corporation. They argued that division would encourage corruption which would be followed in other citys of the country. Moreover, BNP declared to unify Dhaka if divided.[163]

· US ambassador at large for war crimes Stephen J Rap opined in a press briefing that the tribunal process should be more transparent. There should be scope for appeal against the verdict of the ICT. It would be better if the trial process were broadcast live in radio and TV. Interested corners should be allowed to observe the tribunal process.[164]

· BNP has critisized the Eletion Commission (EC) because the Election Commission is still determined to use Electronic Voting Machine and not to deploy the army at the upcoming Comilla City Corporation polls. Local BNP leaders also said they would submit a memorandum to the commission, requesting not to use EVMs in the January 5 election. On the oher hand, voters are still in dark about EVM.[165]

· Dan Mozina, the newly appointed US ambassador to Bangladesh, commented that

there must be an election acceptable to all parties in Bangladesh. The formula for such fair election had to be found out by the country itself while USA would provide all-out assistance in this endeavour.

· US ambassador at large for war crimes Stephen J Rap opined that they want transparency and fairness in the trial for war crimes. He alleged that Bangladesh government had not implemented many of the suggestions provided to ensure justice and fair trial.[166]

Loot and Corruption

· A locally influential AL leader is buiding on a sizeable grabbed land. Although the police once stopped the work, his men started building again after the police haad gone.[167]

· The government of Bangladesh is going to publish a supplement at the London Times in exchange of Taka 10 million. The 12 page supplement will comprise of interviews with the ministers of foreign affairs, commerce and trade, finance and the governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank alon with the democracy condition and potential of Bangladesh. Government is hopeful to successfully repel through this publication the negative image of Bangladesh propagated in the world media.[168]

· Landless farmers who cultivated aman paddy on khas lands allocated by the district administration are now passing worrying time as criminals allegedly led by the ruling party men have engaged in looting the ripe crop from the fields.[169]

·

· Real contractors are in fear to puirchase the Local Government and Engineering Department’s tender to repair local roads in the district of Joypurhat. Local AL leaders are threatening the contractors not to participate in the tender process. They have allegedly alloted the tender work among themselves.[170]

· A tender process of Taka 10 million at the Dhaka university of Engineering Technology has been postponed. BCL leaders are allegedly barring real contractors to submit tender proposals. Some of the contractors were even detained and beaten by the BCL cadres. Finally the authority postponed it on the basis of this allegation.[171]

· Juba and Chhatra League cadres have stopped the work of 63 beneficiaries of a government employment program for hardcore poor in the district of Thakurgaon. These men were recruited on the recommendation of one of the AL leaders. As another leader’s men were not recruited in the program, he and his associates stopped their work.[172]

· A local Jubo League leader and president of the governing body of a local religious school has allegedly embezzled taka 80000 in the name of appointing teachers for the school. The local residents allege that he has advertised for appointment of teacher secretly and received money from the candidates to appoint them.[173]
AL leader building shop grabbing land

· A local AL leader is building shop grabbing the land of a local businessman in the district of Narail. The businessman has already filed a case against him but he is still continuing the construction work overlooking the court stay order.[174] · A former BCL leader at Jahangirnagar University allegedly hijacked a private car and demanded taka 350000 from the owner as extortion. The car was hijacked with the driver from the capital and brought to the university campus. Being informed, the VC and Proctor of the university ordered to release the car but they expressed their inability to take any action without written complaint. However, it was not known whether the car was returned or not.[175]

· Noted Indian columnist Kuldip Nayar reports on Gulf News that there is corruption everywhere in Bangladesh and many people are turning away from prime minister Sheikh Hasina due to Padma Bridge graft. Mr Nayar recently visited Bangladesh.[176]

· BCL cadres at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) beat up a project engineer of the under-construction university centre. The cadres have been demanding taka 5 million as extortion from the engineering firm for some days. The engineer refused to pay the amount.[177]

· BCL cadres are illegaly allowing external students to live at the dormitories of Dhaka University in exchange of money. One of such students was mass beaten at SM Hall. This student used to misbehave with the general students under the prtestion of BCL leaders.[178]

· A local AL leader in the district of Rangpur is allegedly dredging a river with shallow machine and filling up a pond with the sand in a contract of taka 100000. As a result houses near the river are collapsing. According to the government rule river dredging is not allowed within 1 kilometer of residential area.[179]

· A local Jubo League leader in the district of Faridpur has allegedly sold an olden iron bridge of Local Government and Engineering Departmenmt (LGED) and the buyer has already started to break it. A new bridge is to replace the current bridge but LGED has not taken any step to remove the old one yet[180].

· A local Srameek League leader is illegally dredging sand with machine from the river Bangali in the district of Bogra. As a result the nearby villages are running the risk of being washed away by river erosion.[181]

· AL leaders in the district of Jhinaidah have allegedly distributed an LGED tender of taka 60 million amon themselves with the help of an LGED executive engineer. Local contractors are angry at the graft and have expressed their concern that not a single penny of this tender money would be used in the constriction work rather the leaders would grab it all.[182]

· AL leaders in the district of Faridpur are allegedly building a market by grabbing land for public tubewell, toilets and canal. Though there is unrest among the local businessmen regarding the graft , nobody dares to protest.[183]

· Recently Mahbubul Hoque Hanif , special assistant to prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and joint secretary general of AL, visited Jhinaidah. Local leaders decorated 27 kilometers of road with colourful banners, festoons, life-size portraits of Mr Hanif and the local MP and 27 temporary gates. Local schools and teachers were allegedly forced by the AL leaders to pay for all this decoration.[184]

· Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies disclosed in a survey that 80 thousand cooperatives were closed fown due to mismanagement.[185]

Assault on Women and Vulnerable People

· Jubo league cadres beat up a high school teacher as he protested the sexual assault on his female students. The cadres were molesting girls attending a cultural function of their school.[186]

· Jubo League cadres beat up 5 including a female local government member in connection to a [187]dispute over land in the district of Barisal. She was indiscriminately beaten and seriuosly injured.

· AL vandals in the district of Rangpur have vandalized a Hindu widow’s house and looted assets of Taka 3.2 million. The widow deprived of justice and shelter is leading a miserable life with are orphaned children.[188]

· Police on Tuesday night raided the house of a man at Uthkul village in Jatrapur union of Sadar upazila, suspecting his involvement in bomb blast at the residence of a local member of the union. Failing to arrest the man, law enforcers beat up his wife and sister and ransacked the house, family members and locals alleged.[189]

·

Assault on Media and Freedom of Expression

· A BNP move to bring out a mass procession in the city's Nayapaltan area to protest the “government's repression and police attack” on opposition activists and secret killings was foiled by Police. The police made sure that the BNP men, except for some senior leaders, could not gather at their central office in the area. At least eight persons, including two female workers, were picked up by police as they tried to enter the BNP office.[190]

· A BNP protest meeting was attacked and the party's office was ransacked and damaged allegedly by the ruling party activists in Betagi upazila on Monday night. Police quoting locals said, Awami League (AL) activists swooped on BNP party office at Jolisha Bazaar under Hosnabad union of Barishal District.[191]

· About 70 to 80 people were wounded in police action in South Keraniganj. Traders in the bazaar instantly closed their shops and took out a procession demanding punishment of the policemen.[192]

· A march organised by Shahbagh unit of BNP was foiled by police on Saturday.
Excepting a minor brick-battle between the police and themarchers, no untoward incident occurred. Initially the Shahbagh BNP attempted to bring out a march as a part of its programme scheduled from the Segun Bagicha area of the city. Heavily resisted by police, the marchers got scattered and eventually assembled at the BNP's central office at Naya Paltan. There were no central leaders of the party in the march.[193]

· Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, on Saturday foiled the inauguration program of female indoor games in Barisal Government Brojo Mohon College in the ground that the logo of BCL backed organization was not in place.[194]

Intervention in Legal Process and Manipulation of Administrative Power

· 6 Jamaat activists including the Ameer of Maheshkhali have been seen to jail. They were charged with treason. They were arrested while they were distributing anti-government liflets in their locality.[195]

· Notorious godfather Jaynal Hazari held a closed door meeting with the district Judge of Comilla for about an hour. Mr Hazari told the press that he pleaded to the Judge to convict him in that murder case so that he could go to high court. The case is pending for 24 years.[196]

· Local leaders and activists of Chhatradal and Jubodal, two wings of BNP, are on the run due to fear of being arrested at Savar-Dhamri near Dhaka. They can not even sleep at their houses at night. An annonymous activist alleged that the local police filed a baseless case against 15 leaders and activists.[197]

· Police has arrested 6 men of Islami Shasontantra Andolan. They were hoding a meeting at Kottali Adarsha School in the district of Lalmonirhat. Police alleged that they did not seek permission for the meeting from the police.[198]

· The High Court has denied the writ appeal against the unsystematic expel of Brigradier General Abdullahil Aman Azmee, the son of former Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Chief Professor Ghulam Azam. On June 23, 2009 he was expelled from the post of Brigradier General of Bangladesh Army withdrawing all his pension facilities.[199]

· Police arrested 5 Shibir men from a student boarding in Jaipurhat town. The local Shibir leaders alleged that police arretsed them illegally since their names were not in the chargesheet of the concerned case.[200]

· Police has arrested the Firoz Abdullah, the president of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Rajapur in the district of Jhalkathi. Police alleged that he was planning a subotage with 10-12 other people.[201]

· Police has arrested BNP president of Darus Salam of the capital in connection to vandalism, arson and guerilla attack on the police during BNP demonastration against the government.[202]

· Police arrested 6 BNP-Jamaat men at Hizla in the district of Barisal at night. Police informed that they had been sent to jail through the court.[203]

· Police has arrested 5 Shibir activists from the Mouchak area of the capital. Police informed the press that they had been arrested in connection to subotage that took place recently.[204]

· 11 Jamaat-shibir men have been arrested in the district of Khulna at night in connection to a case filed almost a year ago. The local Jamaat has protested the arrest.[205]

· Police has arrested 93 BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists from different places of the country in connection to subotage, vandalizing and torching vehicles in 8 districts including Dhaka.[206]

· Police filed a case accusing over 100 BNP men at Sirajganj of torching a bus and arrested 10 of them.[207]

· Police has arrested Jamaat Ameer of Baufal in the district of Patuakhali. Jamaat has condemned and protested the arrest dubbing it illegal and unfair.[208]

· BNP demonastration couldn’t be held at Sylhet due to aggressive position of Police and local AL cadres. Chhatra League and Jubo League were rallying in Sylhet city accusing BNP-Jamaat of recent subotage and vandalism in fifferent parts of the country.[209]

· Police arrested a youth accused of attack on BCL leader at Chittagong. He and another guy attacked the BCL leader with sharp weapons. He is an associate of a local top terror.[210]

· Plice has arrested a local BNP leader and listed top terror Mahbub from launch port of Bagerhat town. Another BNP leader of Bagerhat was arrested in connection to an incident of scuffle. [211]

· Police arrested 13 shibir men including the district presiedent of Jinaidah. They were holding a meeting in their boarding when local BCL cadres attacked there and vandalized the boarding. Being informed police arrested the shibir men instead of the attackers.[212]

· Police arrested 8 BNP men from different parts of the capital in connection to torching police van case during a strike. The strike was called by BNP protesting the division of Dhaka City Corporation into two.[213]

· Police arrested a local AL leader’s brother and his associate while taking Yaba, an illegal drug, in the district of Narsingdi. However the local residents alleged that police grabbed 100 bottles of Phensydyl, another drug, and 100 tablets of Yaba from them. Police declined this allegation.[214]

· Police has arrested aingers and members of the band gropup Samiran suspecting them as the members of Hijbut Tahrir, a banned Islamic party. They were returning home after rehearsel. However police accused them of sticking anti-government posters.[215] · Son of press secretary of the opposition leader has been arrested while returning home from the mosque after morning prayer. He is a brilliant A level student. Police claimed that he is a member of the banned Islamic party, Hizbut Tahrir and was found sticking poster for the party. However, opposition party BNP refused such allegation and protested the arrest.[216] · Border Security Force (BSF) of India disclosed in an statement that they arrested nearly 2000 people in connection to smuggling from the Bangladesh-West Bengal border in the last year. Besides, lots of drugs, gold and thousands of cattles were confiscated while being smuggled.[217] · 7 Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested in the district of Bagerhat while rallying demanding the release of detained Jamaat leaders.[218] ·

· 3 including Bagerhat Jamaat Amir were arrested in accusation of subotage. They were arrested fro the residence of the Jamaat Amir.[219]

· A case has been filed against 300 JCD and Shibir men in connection to BCL-JCD clash at Khulna Azam Khan College. 34 of them have been arrested. The clash took place when both BCL and JCD men brought out rallies welcoming the freshers at the college. 25 including police were injured in the clash.[220]

· Police could not find out any clue regarding the murder of a BNP leader of Jessore district even after a week of the murder. He was found dead in Gazipur a day after he had been kidnapped from Dhaka. [221]

· Ruling party supported teachers are getting promotion at Jagannath University. It is alleged that service rule has been relaxed to promote some influential associate professors to full professor. It will allegedly allow immature teachers to become professor.[222]

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[1] Amar Desh 04-12-11

[2] Prothom Alo 08-12-11

[3] Amar Desh 08-12-11

[4] Amar Desh 11-12-11

[5] Amar Desh 11-12-11

[6] Prothom Alo 16-12-11

[7] Prothom Alo 16-12-11

[8] Amar Desh 16-12-11

[9] Prothom Alo 17-12-11

[10] Amar Desh 17-12-11

[11] Amar Desh, Sangram 17-12-11

[12] Amar Desh 18-12-11

[13] Amar Desh 19-12-11

[14] Amar Desh 19-12-11

[15] Naya Diaganta

[16] Daily Star 16.12.11

[17] Daily Star 16.12.11

[18] Daily Star 22.12.11

[19] The Independent 19.12.11

[20] Daily Star 18.12.11

[21] The Independent 18.12.11

[22] Daily Star 8.12.11

[23] Daily Star 3.12.11

[24] Daily Star 17.12.11

[25] Daily Star 12.12.11

[26] New Age 15.12.11

[27] Daily Star 12.12.11

[28] Daily Star 2.12.11

[29] Independent 17.12.11

[30] Daily Star 29.12.11

[31] Daily Star 18.12.11

[32] Daily Star 2.12.11

[33] Naya Diganta

[34] Naya Diganta

[35] Amar Desh 02-12-11

[36] Amar Desh 02-12-11

[37] Amar Desh 02-12-11

[38] Amar Desh 04-12-11

[39] Amar Desh 05-12-11

[40] Prothom Alo 05-12-11

[41]Prothom Alo 06-12-11

[42] Prothom alo 06-12-11

[43] Amar Desh, Naya Diganta 09-12-11

[44] Prothom Alo 11-12-11

[45] Sangram 08-12-11

[46] Amar Desh 15-12-11

[47] Sangram 17-12-11

[48] Amar Desh 15-12-11

[49] Prothom Alo 19-12-11

[50] Amar Desh, Prothom Alo 20-12-11

[51] Sangram 20-11-11

[52] Amar Desh, Prothom Alo 21-12-11

[53] Amar Desh 21-12-11

[54] Prothom alo 22-12-11

[55] Amar Desh, Prothom Alo 24-12-11

[56] Naya Diganta

[57] Prothom Alo 25-12-11

[58] Naya Diganta

[59] Amar Desh 28-11-11

[60] Sangram, Prothom Alo 28-11-11

[61] Naya Diganta

[62] Prothom Alo 28-11-11

[63] Naya Diganta

[64] Sangram 29-11-12

[65] Sangram 09-12-11

[66] Sangram 17-12-11

[67] Sangram 17-12-11

[68] Amar Desh 21-12-11

[69] Prothom Alo 22-12-11

[70] Sangram23-12-11

[71] Amar Desh 23-12-11

[72] Prothom Alo 25-12-11

[73] Amar Desh 25-12-11

[74] Amar Desh, ProthomAlo 25-12-11

[75] Naya Diganta

[76] Daily Sun 29.11.11

[77] Independent 17.12.11

[78] Daily Sun 30.11.11

[79] New Age 5.12.11

[80] New Age 29.11.11

[81] New Age 19.12.11

[82] Daily Star 16.12.11

[83] Daily Star 3.12.11

[84] Daily Star 15.12.11

[85] Daily Star 16.12.11

[86] Amar Desh: 12.12.2011

[87] Amar Desh: 2.12.2011

[88] Amar Desh: 21.12.2011

[89] Amar Desh, Prothom Alo, Sangram: 16.12.2011

[90] Amar Dedsh, Prothom Alo: 15.12.2011

[91] Prothom Alo: 8.12.2011

[92] Amar Desh: 6.12.2011

[93] Amar Desh, Sangram: 5.12.2011

[94] Amar Desh: 11.12.11

[95] Amar Desh: 29.12.11

[96] Amar Desh: 20.12.11

[97] Amar Desh: 20.12.11

[98] Amar Desh: 17.12.11

[99] Amar Desh: 20.12.11

[100] Amar Desh: 18.12.11

[101] Amar Desh: 15.12.11

[102] Amar Desh: 8.12.11

[103] Naya Diganta: 12.12.11

[104] Naya Diganta: 12.12.11, Sangram: 2.12.11

[105] Amar Desh: 2.12.11

[106] Sangram: 30.12.11

[107] Sangram: 2.12.11

[108] Amar Desh: 2.12.12

[109] Sangram: 24.12.11

[110] Amar Desh: 20.11.11

[111] Amar Desh: 22.11.11

[112] Amar Desh: 22.11.11

[113] Prothom Alo: 15.11.11

[114] Amar Desh: 15.12.11

[115] Amar Desh: 11.12.11

[116] Amar Desh, Sangram: 8.12.11

[117] Amar Desh: 3.12.11

[118] Prothom Alo: 19.12.11

[119] Prothom Alo: 11.12.2011

[120] Amar Desh: 15.12.2011

[121] Naya Diganta: 12.12.11

[122] Sangram: 3.12.11

[123] Daily Star 4.12.11

[124] Daily Star 29.11.11

[125] Daily Star 30.11.11

[126] Daily Star 23.11.11

[127] Independent 23.12.11

[128] Daily Star 21.11.11

[129] Daily Star 16.11.11

[130] Daily Star 12.11.11

[131] Daily Star 10.11.11

[132] Daily Star 18.11.11

[133] Daily Star 3.11.11

[134]New Age 17.12.11

[135] Daily Star 23.12.11

[136] Daily Sun 30.11.11

[137] Daily Star 22.12.11

[138] Daily Star 20.12.11

[139] Daily Star 24.12.11

[140] Daily Star 18.12.11

[141] Daily Star 6.12.11

[142] Daily Star 4.12.11

[143] Daily Star 30.11.11

[144] Daily Star 30.11.11

[145] Prothom Alo 04-12-11

[146] Amar Desh 05-12-11

[147] Amar Desh, Prothom Alo 05-12-11

[148] Amar Desh 05-12-11

[149] Amar Desh 08-12-11

[150] Amar Desh 09-12-11

[151] Amar Desh 09-12-11

[152] Prothom Alo 16-12-11

[153] Prothom Alo 16-12-11

[154] Amar Desh 21-12-11

[155] Naya Diganta

[156] Amardesh, 2011/12/08

[157] Amardesh, 2011/12/11

[158] Amardesh, 2011/12/04

[159] Amardesh, 2011/12/04

[160] Nayadiganta, 2011/12/04

[161] Amardesh, 2011/12/03

[162] Prothomalo, 2011/11/29

[163] Prothomalo,2011/11/29

[164] Amardesh, 2011/11/29

[165] Amardesh, 2011/11/29

[166] Amardesh, 2011/11/28

[167] Prothomalo, 2011/12/19

[168] Aamardesh, 2012/12/19

[169] Daily Star 16.12.11

[170] Prothonalo, 2011/12/06

[171] Prothomalo, 2011/11/28

[172] Prothomalo, 2011/11/28

[173] Prothomalo, 2011/12/04

[174] Prothomalo, 2011/12/02

[175] Nayadiganta, 2011/11/29

[176] Amardesh, 2011/11/28

[177] Prothomalo, 2011/12/02

[178] Sangram, 2011/12/02

[179] Prothomalo, 2011/12/16

[180] Prothomalo, 2011/12/16

[181] Prothomalo, 2011/12/21

[182] Amardesh, 2011/12/20

[183] Prothomalo, 2011/12/08

[184] Prothomalo, 2011/12/18

[185] Amardesh, 2011/12/08

[186] Amardesh, 2011/12/21

[187] Sangram, 2011/12/11

[188] Amardesh, 2011/2/08

[189] Daily Star 15.12.11

[190] Daily Star 22.12.11

[191] Daily Star 15.12.11

[192] Daily Star 3.12.11

[193] Independent 24.12.11

[194] Independent 19.12.11

[195] Prothomalo, 2011/12/19

[196] Amardesh, 2012/12/19

[197] Amardesh, 2011/12/24

[198] Prothomalo, 2011/12/25

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[200] Prothom-alo, 2011/12/24

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