Mushtaq’s Death: Ensure justice, scrap DSA
7 victims of controversial laws urge govt Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Seven victims of the Digital Security Act and ICT Act yesterday demanded a judicial probe into the alleged brutal torture on writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and trial of law enforcers accused of torture.
Terming the DSA a death trap , the seven, including a teacher, journalists and activists, in a statement also demanded scrapping of the controversial law and amendment to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act by incorporating in it human rights-centric principles.
Mushtaq died in prison custody on February 25.
7 detained earlier under DSA and ICT Act demand abolition, amendment of acts
Call for judicial probe into alleged torture of cartoonist Kishore, writer Mushtaq Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Seven citizens who had earlier been detained under the Digital Security Act and ICT Act today demanded a judicial probe into the alleged torture of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and the trial of responsible law enforcement members.
The group of teachers, journalists and activists also demanded abolition of the controversial law and amendment of the ICT Act with human rights-centric principles.
In a statement, they said: We are deeply concerned about the recent death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison and fear for all inmates. At the same time, we have also learned Kishore had complained that he had been tortured in custody of the law enforcement agencies after his arrest on the night of May 2 last year
8-year-old killed after rape in Bogura Star Online Report Star Online Report
An 8-year-old girl was killed, allegedly after rape, in Bogura s Dhunat upazila early today.
The victim was a second grader at a local primary school in Nosrotpur village.
The deceased, Tabassum Khatun, along with her grandfather went to a waz mahfil (religious event) near her house last night. She remained missing since she went to buy chips from a shop around 10pm, Gaziur Rahman, additional superintendent of police (Sherpur circle) told The Daily Star.
Later, relatives and villagers searched for her and found her body around 1:30am from near a bamboo grove. She was immediately sent to the Dhunat upazila heath complex.
She only went to buy chips
8-yr-old found dead after rape in Bogura Star Report Star Report
An eight-year-old girl has been killed after rape in Bogura s Dhunat upazila.
The victim, Tabassum Khatun, was a second grader at a primary school in Nosrotpur village of the upazila.
Police said the girl along with her grandparents went to a waz mahfil near their home in the same village on Monday night. At one stage of the religious event, the girl went to a nearby shop to buy chips around 10:00pm.
As she was late to return, her grandparents started looking for her, but did not find her anywhere.
Abused at every turn
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A 13-year-old girl from a village in Bogura s Dhunat upazila was abducted, gang raped for more than a month, and then left unconscious by a road on August 24. Her sufferings, however, were still not over.
As her family sought justice, a group of influential locals humiliated them instead. They also isolated the family from other villagers, organised an arbitration and allegedly tried to settle the issue taking money from the offenders.
Police, on the other hand, all along remained reluctant to record a rape case over the incident. The family alleged some locals and a sub-inspectorjoined hands with the culprits.