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Detective Branch
The Detective Branch (; abbreviated as DB) is a specialized unit of the Bangladesh Police. It mostly deals with investigative activities and special operations in sensitive cases and places. The main task of the detectives of this unit is to collect the information behind the news from the grass root level for the purpose of investigating the events of any serious hidden crime or unsolved historical crime. Also, if necessary, they arrest those who are suspicious individuals. History On 1 July 2016, Intelligence Branch Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim was shot dead by terrorists in the July 2016 Dhaka attack. According to Human Rights Watch, there is extensive documentation of human rights violations by the Detective Branch and the Rapid Action Battalion. According to Human Rights Watch, 70 percent of extrajudicial deaths involving the police involved the Detective Branch. Controversies In 1998, Shamim Reza Rubel, a student of Independent University, Bangladesh, was arreste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insignia
An insignia () is a sign or mark distinguishing a group, grade, rank, or function. It can be a symbol of personal power or that of an official group or governing body. An insignia, which is typically made of metal or fabric, is a standalone symbol of a particular or general authority. Together, insignias form a decoration with the different elements of a rank, grade, or dignity. There are many types of insignia, including civil decoration, civil and military decorations, Crown (heraldry), crowns, emblems, and coats of arms. Singular/plural "Insignia" can be used either as a plurale tantum word, i.e. unchanged for both singular and plural, or it can take the plural form "insignias", both equally valid options. The singular "insigne" is rarely used. History The use of insignias predates history, both for personal and group (especially military) use. When the insignia was meant to be seen, it was placed at top of a pole or the head of a spear. The Persians used a golden eagle as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 2016 Dhaka Attack
On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 Bangladesh Standard Time ( UTC+06:00), five terrorists took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana jurisdiction in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The terrorists entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals). In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police tried to regain control of the bakery, two police officers were shot dead by the assailants. 29 people were killed, including 20 hostages (17 foreigners and 3 locals), two police officers, five terrorists, and two bakery staff. After the police failed to breach the bakery and secure the hostages, they set up a perimeter along with the Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh. Very early on 2 July (around 03:00), it was decided that the Bangladesh Armed Forces would launch a counter-assault named ''Operation Thunderbolt''. The assault was led by the 1st Para-commando Battalion, an elite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wari Thana
Wari () is an upscale historical neighbourhood and a thana (police jurisdiction) in Dhaka District in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Located in the Old Dhaka quarter, it is the first planned neighbourhood in Dhaka city, established in the late 19th century. The area is home to the Baldha Garden, one of the oldest botanical gardens established in this part of Bengal. Formed in 2012, Wari Thana falls under the administrative area of the Dhaka South City Corporation and had a population of about 1.25 lakh at the 2022 Bangladeshi census. History The origin of the name "Wari" has been subject to debate. While many attribute it to Dhaka's magistrate in 1884 Frederick Wyer, historian Hashem Sufi suggests that it dates back to the Mughal period when troops garrisoned here in large tents, called in Persian. Before the British government gained control of the area in the 19th century, Muslin artisans, known for repairing clothing, inhabited the area. Spanning 700 acres, the whole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (), popularly abbreviated as BNP (), is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by President of Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman, with a view of uniting people with a Bangladeshi nationalism, nationalist ideology. Later, the BNP emerged as one of the two traditionally dominant parties in Bangladesh, along with it's rival, the Awami League. Known as the "Party of the Freedom Fighters of the Battlefield" during it's establishment, the BNP was founded by Ziaur Rahman after the presidential election of 1978 and remained in its leadership until his Assassination of Ziaur Rahman, assassination in 1981. Following Rahman's assassination, his widow, Khaleda Zia, took over leadership of the party and presided as chairperson until her imprisonment, in 2018. Since then, Tarique Rahman, the son of Rahman and Zia, has served as acting chairperson and has run the affairs of the party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatiotabadi Mohila Dal
Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Mohila Dal () is the women's wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It was established on 9 September 1978. The incumbent president of the organisation is Afroza Abbas and Incumbent general secretary is Sultana Ahmed. Events *Shahida Akhter Rita, a Mohila Dal politician and the only woman candidate in Jamalpur District, lost the election from Jamalpur-1 in December 2008. *In March 2010, Noor-e-Ara Safa was elected President and Shirin Sultana was elected General Secretary of Mohila Dal. *On 6 August 2013, Activists of Mohila Dal protested in Tangail District, protesting the gang rape of a student of Major General Mahmudul Hasan High School. *In August 2018, the President of Chittagong unit of Mohila Dal was detained by the police for allegedly provoking students who were protesting. *In February 2020, ten people were injured in violent fractional clashes of Mohila Dal in Chittagong. *On 14 March 2022, police prevented protests by Mohila Dal regarding infla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is an independent, Non-governmental organization, non-governmental body that promotes human rights in Asia and mobilizes Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. It was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia and serves to promote civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights. AHRC endeavours to achieve the following objectives stated in the Asian Charter: "Many Asian states have guarantees of human rights in their constitutions, and many of them have ratified international human rights instruments. However, there continues to be a wide gap between rights enshrined in these documents and the abject reality that denies people of their rights. Asian states must take urgent action to implement the human rights of their citizens and residents." Its sister organization, the Asian Legal Resource Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munshi Atiqur Rahman
Munshi Atiqur Rahman is a retired Bangladesh Police officer who served as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Criminal Investigation Department. He was charged and convicted for attempting to cover up the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack. Career Rahman led the Criminal Investigation Department in raiding the home of Maulana Abdur Rahman, leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, in January 1999 after the attempted assassination of Shamsur Rahman. He also issued orders for the arrest of another leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, Maulana Atiqur Rahman. Rahman filed a case over the Attempted assassination of Sheikh Hasina in 2000. On 21 August 2004, a rally of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was attacked with grenades. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was given the responsibility to investigate the case. In order to protect the real culprits the CID officers forced a petty criminal, Joj Miah, into confessing the crime. Rahman was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent University, Bangladesh
Independent University, Bangladesh (, more commonly known as IUB) is a private research university in Bangladesh. It is located in Bashundhara of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1993 under the Private University Act, 1992. The university awards bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in a wide variety of subjects within business, humanities, social sciences, information technology, engineering, medicine and space and astronomy. The university has over 19,000 students, both national and international, and is one of Bangladesh's top private universities. It is the first university in Bangladesh to launch deep-sky imaging telescopes. History Independent University, Bangladesh was established in 1993 by A.Majeed Khan with a group of prominent intellectuals and business leaders in the country Vice-chancellors * Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury (1994 – 2011) * M Omar Ejaz Rahman (2012 – 2020) * Milan Pagon (Acting) * Tanweer Hasan (23 February 2022 – 15 August 2024) * Mohamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamim Reza Rubel Murder
The Shamim Reza Rubel murder is a murder of private university student that took place in police custody and created a landmark legal case in Bangladesh. History Incident Shamim Reza Rubel was a BBA student of Independent University, Bangladesh, a private university. On 23 July 1998 he was taken from his home in Siddeswari by undercover members of Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police who started beating him immediately and accused him of having illegal weapons. He was taken to the Detective Branch office in Mintu road. He was tortured in custody and forced to admit he had illegal weapons. They took him back to his house to recover the weapons but could not find any. Rubel admitted that he confessed to stop the torture. The continued to beat him and his screams could be heard in the neighborhood. He was taken back to the Detective Branch and there he died in custody. His autopsy report said he died from haemorrhage and shock caused by severe beating. Case In 1998 Human Rights or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments". The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty", which appeared on the front page of the British newspaper ''The Observer'', Benenson wrote about two students who toasted to freedom in Portugal and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Department Of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy of the United States, foreign policy and foreign relations of the United States, relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering List of diplomatic missions of the United States, diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, protecting citizens abroad and representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; "Foggy Bottom" is thus sometimes used as a metonym. Established in 1789 as the first administrative arm of the U.S. executive branch, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extrajudicial Killing
An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding. It typically refers to government authorities, whether lawfully or unlawfully, targeting specific people for death, which in authoritarian regimes often involves political, trade union, dissident, religious and social figures. The term is typically used in situations that imply the human rights of the victims have been violated. Deaths caused by legal police actions (such as self defense) or legal warfighting on a battlefield are generally not included, even though military and police forces are often used for killings seen by critics as illegitimate. The label "extrajudicial killing" has also been applied to organized, lethal enforcement of extralegal social norms by non-government actors, including lynchings and honor killings. United Nations Morris Tidball-Binz was appointed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
