投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman
Police accused of shooting at activists and leaders of growing street protests against Sheikh Hasina’s draconian governmentIt was a warm afternoon in May 2020 when Ahmed Kabir Kishore, dozing lazily, awoke to 20 men breaking down the door of his apartm…
Seven killed and thousands arrested as Hasina regime continues repressive campaign against opponentsTwo top leaders of Bangladesh’s main opposition party have been arrested amid a violent crackdown on government opponents during which at least seven pe…
BJP government accused of ‘divide-and-conquer policy’ as villagers are beaten and shotMaynal Haque was holding a bamboo stick in his hand when the police shot him at point-blank range. All around him, the houses of the village he grew up in were being …
While Aung San Suu Kyi defended a genocidal campaign against the Muslim minority, refugees fear military rule will end dreams of a return homeFor the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, news of the fall of Aung San Suu Kyi after the military coup was bittersw…
Group says it has been held in jail-like conditions on Bhasan Char since AprilRohingya refugees allege they are being held against their will in jail-like conditions and subjected to rape and sexual assault on a Bangladeshi island in the Bay of the Ben…
In Telinipara, West Bengal, Hindu attackers burned Muslim homes and shops and vandalised mosques Under the cover of lockdown, they came. Armed with petrol bombs, acid bombs, gas cylinders, molotov cocktails and explosives, the men, numbering around 100…
Fears disease could ‘spread like wildfire’ in the incredibly congested slum of DharaviIt was the news that many in India had feared. A 56-year-old man who lived in Dharavi, India’s largest slum, where almost 1 million people are densely packed together…
Bangladeshi official says potential returnees fear for their safety in Rakhine stateA second attempt to repatriate the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has failed after the authorities failed to convince the refugees it…