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Qamaruzzaman, Kader arrestedStaff Correspondent

The police on Tuesday arrested the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islamis senior assistant secretary

general Qamaruzzaman and assistant secretary general Abdul Kader Mollah in a case filed in

http://www.newagebd.com/2010/jul/14/front.html#1

Mahmudur Rahman 'shown arrested' in ACC case

Independent Online

Dhaka, Jul 13: A Dhaka court has ordered Mahmudur Rahman, the

detained acting editor of the newspaper Amar Desh, to be shown

arrested in an ACC case filed for failing to provide a wealth statement.

http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=182146

Another accused dies in police custody at Nabinagar

Independent Online

Brahmanbaria, Jul 11: Another accused died in police custody at Nabinagar on Sunday,

only six days after the High Court asked the government to constitute a committee toinvestigate custodial deaths.


7 Shibir men held in Joypurhat

independent Online

Joypurhat, Jul 10: Police in a drive arrested seven leaders and activists of Chhatra Shibir

at Roar village in Akkelpur upazila on Friday night.

http://www.theindependent-bd.com/archive.details.php?nd=2010-07-10&nid=181634


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Three top Jamaat leaders taken on four-day remand

Independent Online

DHAKA, Jul 10: The arrested three top Jamaat-e- Islami leaders were produced beforethe court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka today.


Plea to stay remand of Jamaat trio rejected

STAFF REPORTERA Dhaka court yesterday rejected three separate petitions requesting the staying of remand of the threetop ranking Jamaat-e-Islami leaders - Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Delwar

Hossain Sayedee in three cases filed with different city police stations.


Police bar BNP's human chain programme

Independent Online

Dhaka, Jul 7: Police obstructed the BNP leaders and activists to form

their human chain programme this morning at different parts in thecapital.


One killed, more than 100 injured and 100 arrested during BNP's programme

Independent Online

Dhaka, Jul 7: One activist was killed, more than 100 were injured and 100 arrested bypolice during the countrywide human chain organized by BNP today.


BCL Off The Leash, Still


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Clockwise: Members of a ChhatraLeague faction with iron rods get ready to attack their rivals during a clash between Chhatra League factions at

Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Tanu, a student wounded in the fight, is admitted to DMCH. A cadre

instructs one of his flowers while others carry lethal weapons. The sister of an injured student cries at the

hospital.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=145566

101 more Shibir men held in Ctg

Independent Online

Chittagong, Jul 5: The police have detained 101 more Islami Chhatra

Shibir activists following Sunday's vandalism in Chittagong City.


Nearly 100 Jamaat men held across the country

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, with bureau reports

July 4: The Chittagong police has detained 40 activists of the Jamaat-Shibir after unruly Jamaat e

Islami cadres went on the rampage vandalising shops and attacking vehicles yesterday afternoon,

protesting the arrest of their top leaders by the police.



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BCL infighting at JU leaves 33 hurt

VC assaulted, BCL suspends JU unit, expels 13; university suspends 17 students

Injured Chhatra League activists lie on the ground, left, while a group

beat a rival during a factional feud at Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Photo: Focus

At least 33 students were injured, two by bullets, during a factional feud of Bangladesh Chhatra

League at Jahangirnagar University yesterday over control of a male dormitory.


Editorial

Death in law enforcers' hands

We strongly protest and urge govt action

REPORTS of three deaths of people in police custody only within a span of 5 days are simply

unacceptable. If police are the public face of the government then it is a very scary face

indeed that the citizens are


Editorial

Why do police stray into trigger-happy

mode?

They should be trained in standard crowd control methods

THE death of a school student in an accident on the Dhaka-Mawa highway on Wednesday

has had a backlash of a stupendous proportion breaking into a series of incendiary incidents.At first, there was agitation over a demand for constructing speed breaker, this led to clashes


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Another man dies in cop custody3 such deaths in 5 days in city

Staff Correspondent

A man was allegedly killed under the capital's Darussalam police custody Thursday night.


Khaleda for release of Jamaat trio

Staff Correspondent

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded immediate release of top Jamaat leaders last night

and termed their arrests "a heinous example of political repression in an autocratic manner".


Law and order much better than any other time in the past: Sahara

Independent Online

SANGSAD BHABAN, Jun 30: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun today told

the House that the law and order in the country is now much better than any

other time in the past.


Khaleda for release of Jamaat trio

Staff Correspondent

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded immediate release of top Jamaat leaders last nightand termed their arrests "a heinous example of political repression in an autocratic manner".



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Another man dies in cop custody

3 such deaths in 5 days in cityStaff Correspondent

A man was allegedly killed under the capital's Darussalam police custody Thursday night.


Editorial

Why do police stray into trigger-happy

mode?

They should be trained in standard crowd control methods

THE death of a school student in an accident on the Dhaka-Mawa highway on Wednesday

has had a backlash of a stupendous proportion breaking into a series of incendiary incidents.

At first, there was agitation over a demand for constructing speed breaker, this led to clashes


Editorial

Death in law enforcers' hands

We strongly protest and urge govt action

REPORTS of three deaths of people in police custody only within a span of 5 days are simply

unacceptable. If police are the public face of the government then it is a very scary face

indeed that the citizens are


BCL infighting at JU leaves 33 hurt


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VC assaulted, BCL suspends JU unit, expels 13; university suspends 17 students

Injured Chhatra League activists lie on the ground, left, while a group

beat a rival during a factional feud at Jahangirnagar University yesterday. Photo: Focus

At least 33 students were injured, two by bullets, during a factional feud of Bangladesh Chhatra

League at Jahangirnagar University yesterday over control of a male dormitory.


Nearly 100 Jamaat men held across the country

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, with bureau reports

July 4: The Chittagong police has detained 40 activists of the Jamaat-Shibir after unruly Jamaat e

Islami cadres went on the rampage vandalising shops and attacking vehicles yesterday afternoon,

protesting the arrest of their top leaders by the police.


101 more Shibir men held in Ctg

Independent Online

Chittagong, Jul 5: The police have detained 101 more Islami Chhatra

Shibir activists following Sunday's vandalism in Chittagong City.


Jamaat trio remanded for 16 days

Independent Online


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Dhaka, Jun 30: A Dhaka court has remanded three top Jamaat leaders in police custody

for 16 days each in five cases.

Chy Alam picked up by RabClaims Khoka, demands his release

Staff Correspondent

Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka yesterday demanded

DCC ward councillor and BNP central leader Chowdhury Alam be immediately

released or produced before a court.


Another 'custodial' death

Staff Correspondent

A CNG-run auto rickshaw driver was killed early yesterday when he ran from police custody

and fell on the street in the city's Moghbazar, claimed police. However, the family had

different story to tell.


Arrest made illegally

Says Jamaat, plans demonstrations today

Staff Correspondent

Jamaat-e-Islami will stage demonstrations across the country today to protest the arrest of itsthree top leaders..


BNP demands judicial inquiry of attack on leaders

Independent Online


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Dhaka, Jun 29: The BNP parliamentary party has demanded a judicial

inquiry into the attack on its senior leaders during the hartal on

Sunday.


Nizami, Mojaheed, Sayedee arrested

Independent Online

Dhaka, Jun 29: The police have arrested top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Matiur Rahman

Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee for defying court

orders.


2 killed in city

Staff Correspondent

Criminals killed a housewife in the city's Jatrabari area yesterday.

Meanwhile, body of a man aged around 25 was recovered from a paint factory in the capital'sKadamtoli yesterday.


BNP vice-chairman Shamser Mobin remanded

Independent Online


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Dhaka, Jun 28: A court here on Monday placed BNP vice-chairman

Shamser Mobin Chowdhury and six others on one day remand in a case

for preventing police from their duty and vandalizing vehicles on the

streets during Sundays hartal.


Raid inside house of Mirza Abbas

20 hurt as law enforcers charge batons

slide showOpposition workers wail in pain after a baton-

charge by Rab men at Mirza Abbas's house in Shahjahanpur yesterday. Inset, plain-clothes officers apprehenda pro-hartal activist inside the BNP leader's house. Photo: starMukhlesur Rahman

Rapid Action Battalion men yesterday stormed Mirza Abbas's Shahjahanpur residence in the

capital and charged baton injuring some 20 persons including family members of the BNP

standing committee


Serious injured anee arrested


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Hartal partially paralyses life in capital; At least 50 pickets arrested in capitalIndependent Online

Dhaka, Jun 27: A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by opposition BNP partially paralyzednormal life in the capital in the first few hours on Sunday as pro-hartal elements stagedpickets at various points, police and witnesses said.At least 500


Five injured as BCL, JL clash at RU

RU CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI

June 26: A tense situation has been prevailing on Rajshahi University (RU) campus

for a rival clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League (JL)

activists.


DCC councillor Chowdhury Alam arrestedUnb, Dhaka

Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor and BNP central leader Chowdhury Alam was arrested at the capital'sNaya Paltan yesterday.


editorial

BCL excesses take an unbearable turnHow such offences can go unpunished?ADMISSION trade by Bangladesh Chhatra Leagur (BCL) activists has gone to such an extent that now differentfactions of this student wing are at each other's throat in claiming their stakes from the college administration indifferent districts


Outlaw party leader killed in kushtia shootout


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Independent Online

Kushtia, Jun 24: An outlawed party leader was killed in an encounter

between his cohorts and the law enforcers at Baliapara government

primary school field in Sadar upazila early today (Thursday).


Bangladesh: Re-open Shuttered Newspaper; Free Editor

Investigate Serious Allegations of Torture in Detention

Shutting down a newspaper and jailing its editor shows the Bangladesh government apparently fears

a free and unencumbered press.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/07/07/bangladesh-re-open-shuttered-newspaper-free-editor


'Mahmudur's health has deteriorated'

Independent Online

Dhaka, Jun 18: Lawyers for the detained acting editor of closed daily

Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman have expressed concern over his

health.


50 killed in crossfire in 5 months: Odhikar

Ainul Haque Royal


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Contrary to the Government's claim that there were no "crossfire" or extra-judicial killings, around 50

people have been allegedly killed by the members of different law enforcement agencies during the lastfive months this year.


Crossfire, terrorism claim 34 lives in Khulna div in one month

UNB, KHULNA

June 11: At least 34 people were killed either in 'crossfire' or in different other incidents in

Khulna division, including the divisional headquarters in last month.


Mahmuds bail prayer rejected

COURT CORRESPONDENTMahmudur Rahman, acting editor of now closed the Daily Amar Desh was produced before the ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate (CMM) of Dhaka yesterday on completion of the one-day remand in a case filed

with Kotwali police station on the charge of obstructing policemen discharging duties and AdditionalChief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) AKM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan rejected the bail petition submittedon behalf of Mahmudur Rahman.


20 hurt as BCL activists clash with police

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET

June 8: At least 20 people including six police men were injured in a clash between BCL activists

and police at Sylhet Polytechnic institute this noon.


411 more politically motivated cases withdrawn

UNB, DHAKAThe government on Tuesday recommended withdrawal of 411 more cases on the grounds that they were'politically motivated' filed under previous regimes. The decision was taken after careful scrutiny during

the 19th inter-ministerial meeting on the withdrawal of political harassment cases, held at the HomeMinistry with State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam in the chair.


Bangladesh Observer shuts down after 60-yr publication

'Board meeting soon to relaunch the paper'

STAFF REPORTER


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The Bangladesh Observer, the country's oldest English newspaper, yesterday

announced shutting down of its operations after 60 years of non-stop

publication.


Mahmud taken on fresh 8-day remand

STAFF REPORTERActing Editor of now closed Bangla daily 'Amar Desh' Mahmudur Rahman was remanded to policecustody again for eight days in two more cases.


BCL infighting at CU leaves five injured

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, CHITTAGONGJune 7: At least five activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a clash between rivalfactions of the ruling Awami League's associate student body in Chittagong University this afternoon.


Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur RahmanTaken into 12 days remand

On 07 June 2010, Mahmudur Rahman, Acting Editor of the Bengali Daily Amar Desh was placedunder four days remand by two Metropolitan Magistrates in two separate cases. A three-day remandwas given in the Tejgaon Police Station Case No 2(6)2010 dated 02.06.2010 and a one-day remandwas granted in the Kotwali Police Station Case No. 5(6)2010 dated 02.06.2010.

http://odhikar.org/

Mahmudur on 8-day remand

Indepndent Online

Dhaka, Jun 08: Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman has been

remanded in police custody for eight days.


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Mahmud placed on four-day police remand

STAFF REPORTER

Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Amar Desh, the Bangla daily that was

recently closed on government order, was placed on four days' police remand in

two separate cases yesterday.


Mahmudur quizzed at jail gateStaff Correspondent

Police interrogated arrested Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman at Dhaka Central Jail gate yesterday ina case filed in connection with resisting arrest, assault on law enforcers and preventing them from doing their job.


1 PCJSS activist shot dead in Rangamati

Independent Online

June 03 2010: An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) waskilled and another injured in a gunfight between the United People's Democratic Front

(UPDF) and PCJSS in Rajasthali upazila on Thursday.


Two RU BCL activists suspended

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI

June 2: Tow activists of Chhatra League of Rajshahi University unit were expelled from the

party for their anti-party activities. Both the expelled BCL activists were from Secretary Apu

group.



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STAFF REPORTERThe High Court yesterday expressed its grave concern over growing instances of custodial deaths in the

country and warned the government that this would not be tolerated.

The court also said that there would be zero tolerance to any custodial death as it is oath-bound toprotect the right to life according to the provisions of the Constitution.


Mahmudur taken to court

Independent Online

June 02 2010: Detained Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahaman has

been produced before court in a case filed on charges of assault on police

officials.


No tolerance for custodial deathHC warns govtAshutosh Sarkar

The High Court yesterday directed the government to put a stop to custodial deaths, saying the court will nottolerate such incidents.

An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, and Justice Md Delwar Hossain sounded thewarning during a public interest litigation hearing in connection with the May 11 death of Md Manik Mia in custodyof Chittagong police.


Amar Desh shutDeclaration cancelled over 'publisher row'; acting editor Mahmudur arrested

Mahmudur RahmanStaff Correspondent

The government yesterday cancelled the declaration of the Bangla daily Amar Desh citing that it has noauthorised publisher.


Amar Desh publisher 'out of home'

Independent Online


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June 01 2010: Pro-BNP Bengali-language daily Amar Desh publisher Hashmat

Ali has gone out after returning home after six hours in detention since Tuesday

morning, the family says.


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