Press Release
Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees must not be relocated to uninhabitable island
The Bangladesh government must abandon all plans to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees on to an uninhabitable island, Amnesty…
November 28, 2017
Press Release
Rohingya returns in Myanmar unthinkable until apartheid system is dismantled
In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to a…
November 23, 2017
Report
‘My World Is Finished’: Rohingya Targeted in Crimes against Humanity in Myanmar
More than 530,000 Rohingya men, women and children have fled northern Rakhine State in terror in a matter of weeks…
October 17, 2017
Report
We are at a breaking point": Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, neglected in Bangladesh
The Myanmar security forces are responsible for unlawful killings, multiple rapes and the burning down of houses and entire villages…
December 16, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh: Release Facebook user who criticised Prime Minister
The Bangladeshi authorities must immediately release a 22-year-old student activist detained for two Facebook posts criticising the country’s Prime Minister,…
September 6, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh: Halt imminent execution of Mir Quasem Ali after unfair trial
The Bangladesh authorities must halt the imminent execution of a senior political leader who has been sentenced to death following…
August 30, 2016
Press Release
Police must establish fate and whereabouts of disappeared Bangladesh hostage
Bangladeshi authorities must immediately establish the fate and whereabouts of a surviving hostage from the recent Dhaka restaurant attack who…
July 12, 2016
Press Release
Two months and 10 killings later, a climate of impunity still prevails in Bangladesh
The failure of Bangladeshi authorities to take decisive action against violent groups responsible for at least 10 killings over the…
June 6, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh: Prominent elderly journalist suffering ill-treatment in jail
The Bangladeshi authorities’ treatment of a prominent 81-year-old journalist, who has been held in solitary confinement for several weeks and…
May 22, 2016
Press Release
Nizami execution in Bangladesh will not deliver justice
The execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami today is a deplorable move by the Bangladeshi authorities which will not deliver justice…
May 10, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh must halt imminent execution after Supreme Court upholds death sentence
The Bangladeshi authorities should halt the imminent execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami and impose a moratorium on the death penalty,…
May 5, 2016
Press Release
Authorities fail to curb brutal killing spree as LGBTI editor hacked to death in Bangladesh
Xulhaz Mannan, 35, the editor of Roopbaan, Bangladesh’s first LGBTI magazine, and his friend Tanay Mojumdar were both hacked to…
April 25, 2016