Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation (BHRF), a human rights organisation, has expressed concern over the attack, abduction at gunpoint, illegal detention and attempted murder of The Business Standard's Chattogram correspondent Abu Azad. He was subjected to the assault while working on a report concerning 120 illegal environmentally destructive brick kilns under Rangunia police
Dhaka, Nov 4 (EFE).- Human rights activists Friday welcomed an amendment to the Bangladesh law that bars lawyers from questioning the character of victims in a rape case. Following a long campaign by rights activists, Bangladesh parliament Thursday amended the 1872 British colonial era Evidence Act that rights activists said was routinely used to discredit …