Mehedi Hasan was in Kuwait when Jatrabari police filed a case on July 30 over political violence in the area the day before. Police named 99 people, mostly BNP leaders and activists, in the case, and Mehedi was not among them.
The High Court today upheld a trial court verdict that sentenced a police informant to seven years imprisonment in a case filed for the custodial death of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny, a garment-waste trader from Mirpur, in 2014
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a man on charges of trafficking a woman in Malaysia, where she was sexually abused and forced into prostitution
Justice continues to elude the family members of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny, a garment-waste trader from Mirpur, whose custodial torture and death in 2014 sparked outrage and led to the country’s sole case filed under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013.
A Dhaka court today framed charges against three people, including a suspended assistant sub-inspector, in a case filed over possessing 100 yaba tablets