Bangladesh Minority Watch has reported several cases in which the minorities have been at the receiving end. But this is one crime that would haunt each member of the minority watchdog for long. Bangladesh Minority Watch recently donated Taka 25,000/ to the family of the deceased Hindu boy Sagar Barman on 4th October 2016. Hindu boy […]
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Bangladesh: Hindu girl kidnapping angers community (Video)
Bangladesh Minority Watch has brought to light a tragic case that shows the vulnerability of the minority Hindu community in the South Asia. A minor Hindu girl Toma Rani Saha (17) was kidnapped on 15.08.2016 by perpetrators- Musabbir Hossain (20) Atiqul Islam Atik Md. Afizer Rahman (45) Mizanur Rahman (28) Hamidul Islam (24) Shareef Hossain […]
Bangladesh: Police Officers Attack Human Rights Activist
Dhaka, July 17, 2016: Angered by a human rights activist’s constant investigation in minority rights violations, some radicalized police officers in Bangladesh took law into their hands and beat him up brutally. The attack on the activist Advocate Rabindra Ghosh of Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) took place on 15th July 2016 at about 3 p.m. The […]
Hindu kid abducted, set to become fourth wife of a 45-year old man
Dhaka, July 9, 2016: Case of abducted Hindu kid all of 14 years, Ritu Rani Sen, has again highlighted the growing radicalization in Bangladesh. The Hindu kid was abducted on 27th April, 2016 by Mohammad Miraj (45) son of Md. Baka Mollah of Char Kamarpur in the Kamarkhali Union of Madhukhali Upazila of Faridpur district […]
Bangladesh: Mother and daughter brutally raped by gang
Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 29, 2016: Bangladesh Minority Watch has reported that a Hindu woman (35) and her college-going daughter (17) have been gang raped in a trawler at Bauphal Upazila in Patuakhali District on 11th June, 2016. In connection with the case, Nure Alam- leader of Swechchhasebak League, a pro-Awami League body, has been arrested. The […]
Hindu Advocate abducted for murder in Bangladesh, mother fights for justice
New York, April 30, 2016: Hindu advocate Palash Kumar Roy (33) has been kidnapped for murder by his employer-Md Rezaul Karim-Managing Director of Kohinoor Chemical Co.(BD) Ltd on 30.03.2016. The family is alleging that the Hindu advocate was abducted as he did not agree to arrange mutation of 7 bighas of land properties fraudulently. Palash resigned […]
Minor Hindu girl kidnapped for rape and conversion in Bangladesh
New York, April 15, 2016: Minor Hindu girls have become a prime target for rape and conversion in Bangladesh. A new case has come to light in which 15-year old Popy Mallick, a minority Hindu School girl was kidnapped on 13.03.2016 for rape and forceful conversion to Islam by perpetrators. This is the latest violence […]
Hindu human rights activist threatened by Bangladesh ‘judge’
New York, April 14, 2016: The Hindu community in Bangladesh has again found itself on the backfoot. As if forced conversions, land grabbings and other atrocities done by politicians were not enough, now even High Court judges are threatening advocates who appear for Hindu victims. Here is what advocate Rabindra Ghosh said in a statement […]
Bangladesh should go back to secular Constitution
Dhaka, April 7, 2016: More and more people are trying to take Bangladesh on to the secular route as the country struggles with rising Islamic radicalism. JAGO Hindu Parishad-Chittagong District organized a reception ceremony of the new committee at the Hathazari Upazila of Chittagong District on the 1st of April, 2016. The forum also invited […]
Minority Hindus again under attack, say Muslims want them to leave
New York, March 28, 2016: Another human rights violation of the minority Hindus has come to light from Bangladesh. These attacks on the minority Hindus were supposed to end, post the Union Parishad (UP) elections. However, not only have the attacks continued but, in fact, they have turned rather ferocious against the minority Hindus. The daily […]