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Teknaf of Cox's Bazar police arrested seventh grader student Tawsiful Karim Rafi in an arms related case after not finding his father. Rafi was arrested and subsequently charged on 26th November, 2024, under the The Arms Act, 1878. Later he was sent to jail. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) filed a writ petition in the High Court Division of Bangladesh on this incident on 4th December, 2024. The next day the High Court Division heard the writ and granted bail ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...