Bangladesh has hanged Islamist party leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan
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21st Dec 2024 | Updated at 01:35pm 21st Dec 2024
HINDUS DEMAND JUSTICE GLOBALLY
- 04 Dec 2024
Since the ousting of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, violence against Hindus in Bangladesh has surged, with frequent reports of temple vandalism, assaults, and attacks on individuals. The Hindu minority in Bangladesh comprises 8%. Over...
Clashes erupt in Bangladesh over arrest of Iskcon priest
- 27 Nov 2024
A public prosecutor was killed after violent clashes erupted in Bangladesh on Tuesday following the arrest of a prominent Hindu leader and Iskcon priest Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari. The unrest followed the denial of bail to Brahmachari,...
A Hindu tailor was hacked to death by machete-wielding Islamic State militants in his shop in central Bangladesh.
Bangladesh high court has rejected a petition sent by secular activists challenging the constitutional provision that recognises Islam as the state religion of the Muslim-majority nation
Mahfuz Anam, the editor of Bangladesh's most popular English language newspaper, has been facing 79 legal cases - 62 for defamation and 17 for sedition.
Bangladesh Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 3 people to death and 5 others to prison for killing an atheist blogger in 2013.
Bangladeshi hanged two top opposition leaders for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan after the country's President rejected their last-ditch mercy petitions to escape the gallows.
A regional division of the Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the attacks on two publishers in Bangladesh who put out works critical of fundamentalist...
In the second killing of a foreign national in Bangladesh, a Japanese citizen was shot dead within a week of an Italian's death which was claimed by the Islamic State.
The Indian government is working on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “persecuted” Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
