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 […]
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Awami League leader assaulted minority lawyer
New York, May 10, 2016: Minority Hindu Lawyer belonging to Awami League was in rude shock when he was repeatedly attacked by Awami League personnel belonging to the majority community on 29.11.2015 and 26.03.2016. The incident occurred near Kalshira School located at Chitalmari Upazila of Bagerhat District and the news got prominent mention in the […]
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 […]
Kali Temple attacked in Bangladesh
Dhaka, April 12, 2016: Elangi Baroari’s Kali Temple was attacked and desecrated by unknown perpetrators at the night of 11th March, 2016. The Kali Temple is located at Elangi Ghosh Para within the Dhunat Upazila of Bogra District in the Bangladesh. Bangladesh Minority Watch is investigating the case and also visited the spot on 9th […]
Minority Hindu businessman tortured, afraid to launch complaint
Dhaka, April 11, 2016: Another assault on minority Hindu businessman has come to light from Bangladesh but due to safety issues, many are too scared to launch a complaint. Like in the case of the minority Hindu victim Ranjit Kumar (40) who is a businessman at Chandragonj Maddyam Bazar within Chandragonj police station at Laksmipur […]
Hate crime: Hindus told to leave Bangladesh
Dhaka, April 10, 2016: Victims have filed complaint with the Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) that their business was destroyed as they are Hindus. Two minority victims Rajiv Saha and Sushanta Saha of Ramgoti Bazar submitted written complaints against the perpetrators to BDMW and gave the statement that they were targeted because they are Hindus and […]
Freethinker killed in Bangladesh, Taslima blasts Hasina
New York, April 8, 2016: Another Freethinker and a Jagannath University student Nazimuddin Samad was hacked and then shot dead in Dhaka’s Sutrapur, Bangladesh. The killers also chanted Islamic slogan “Allahu Akbar” or ‘God is Great’ after they killed him and fled the scene. He was attacked at around 9pm this Wednesday (April 6, 2016) at the Ekrampur […]
Hindu candidate faces threats, told to go to India
Dhaka, April 7, 2016: Bangladesh Minority watch (BDMW) has taken up the case of a Hindu candidate who has claimed that he was discriminated against due to his religion in Bangladesh. Biswanath Nandi (Sagar) is a Hindu candidate who was contesting for local U.P Chairman at 3-Shymnagar from the Satkhira District as an independent candidate […]
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 […]