A Writ Petition was filed in May on the High Court division of Bangladesh Supreme Court against the death of Sultana Jasmin under RAB custody. ASK has become a party to the writ petition. Sultana Jasmine (45), an office assistant at Chandipur Union Land Office under Naogaon Sadar upazila, died in RAB custody on 24 March 2023. She was arrested on March 22 on the accusation of hacking a Facebook ID and job scam using that account. Enamul Haque, Joint ...
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A petition was submitted by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), and several other rights organizations, including Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Naripokkho, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP), Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Supreme Court lawyer Ujjal Paul, and other individuals seeking necessary orders to address the issues faced by Hindu women in Bangladesh relating to their rights to divorce, marriage registration, maintenance, guardianship, adoption, and equal inheritance. The High Court bench consisting of  Honorable Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam and ...
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Shamsunnahar (57), for nearly half of her life, has been working as a woman human rights defender and a field staff member of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). She limps while she walks, but does not quiver while she talks; she frequents hospitals, relies heavily on medicines, but that does not prevent her from being the defender she truly is. Back in 2018, one Farzana (pseudonym), a victim of physical and mental abuse by her husband, sought ASK’s shelter services ...
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The arms and weapons used during the Liberation War of 1971 are now ‘old, obsolete and ineffective as a weapon to be used during a war’. Citing these reasons, the Government took the initiative to sell these weapons to 3 different arms import companies, two in United States and one in Switzerland, who expressed their willingness to buy them as ancient monuments or antique souvenirs. This was reported in the national news daily Prothom Alo on 05 October 2020, which ...
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