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International Conference highlights rising mob violence and attacks on rel
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Delivering the keynote, Dr. Anthonie Holslag highlighted the link between blasphemy laws and communal violence, describing it as a form of "creeping genocide."
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"There has been a consistent attack on minorities": Former Ambassador Veen
Updated : 4 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Former Ambassador of India to Bangladesh, Veena Sikri, told ANI on Saturday that for three months, there has been a consistent attack on the minorities in Bangladesh. She said that the attack has been constant and began just after the former PM Sheikh Hasina's plane barely left Dhaka. Accord
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Interim govt looks the other way when Hindus are targeted: Ex HC to Bangla
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Chakravarty said that this time some people are taking undue advantage of the situation.
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Kolkata: Congress holds protest outside Bangladesh High Commission over at
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
West Bengal Congress leader Ashutosh Chatterjee said the External Affairs Minister should address the issue.
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Bangladesh minorities protest lynching of Hindu man in Mymensingh, demand
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Hindu and minority groups in Bangladesh protested in Dhaka over the lynching of Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh, alleging rising religious extremism and government inaction. Protesters demanded justice, security for minorities and accountability, expressing fear over continued violence and
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Bangladesh minorities face growing persecution, GHRD alerts UN Human Rig
Updated : 8 months ago IST
At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN-EU Human Rights Officer, Charlotte Zehrer from Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), in her oral intervention, has drawn international attention to the precarious conditions faced by ethnic and religious minorities
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Bangladesh minority group expresses outrage over absence of minority repre
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, representing the largest minority group in the Muslim-majority South Asian country, expressed outrage on August 26 over the absence of minority representation among newly appointed judges.
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Activist Rabinder Ghosh raises alarm over "ethnic cleansing" of Hindus in
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Human rights activist Rabinder Ghosh on Sunday sounded the alarm on the alleged ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh, claiming that the government's inaction amounts to a serious threat to the minority community.
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China, Pak behind atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh: Human rights ac
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Ghosh alleged that forceful conversions of Hindus to Islam are taking place in Bangladesh, with many incidents of torture, intimidation, rape, and gang rape reported.
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UK MP Bob Blackman condemns violence against Bangladesh minorities, calls
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
UK MP Bob Blackman urged the government to pressure Bangladesh to protect Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, and Ahmadiyya minorities following attacks on Rath Yatra celebrations. He also criticised the delay in announcing election dates and called for a Foreign Office statement on safeguarding min
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Protest against persecution of minorities in Bangladesh raises concerns at
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
A press conference in Geneva raised serious concerns over the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh, highlighting impunity, the release of convicted terrorists, and rising crimes against women. Speakers called for urgent UN intervention and criticised the government's failure to uphold the
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Religious fundamentalists issue new orders after PM Hasina's ouster, criti
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Earlier in March, Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist organisation banned in Bangladesh since October 2009, carried out its first open rally in Dhaka. Joined by thousands of its members, the group began the rally from the north gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Friday prayers. The
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