Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
The body of journalist Bibhuranjan Sarker, who had been missing since yesterday morning, was found floating in the Meghna river in Munshiganj's Gajaria upazila this afternoon.
Bibu, 71, a senior assistant editor at the Bangla daily Ajker Patrika and a columnist on current affairs, has not returned home since leaving for his office in Banasree around 10am, according to his family.
Religious minorities in Bangladesh are facing escalating violence and systemic exclusion, according to recent reports by local organizations and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
Bangladesh witnessed 2,442 incidents of communal violence over a span of 330 days from August 4 last year, when political unrest peaked, leading to the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government, a minority advocacy group in the country said on Thursday.
The Chanda Maharaj case in Pakistan highlights the plight of minority girls, particularly Hindus, subjected to abduction, forced conversion, and marriage.Chanda, a 15-year-old Hindu girl from Sindh, was kidnapped on August 12, 2022, by Shaman Magsi.