BANGLADESH ALERT: Political Motivated Use of Crimes Against Humanity Proceedings Against Three Journalists

Paris, France | 19 August 2026: France-based international human rights organisation JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses its grave concern and strongest condemnation over the move to implicate three prominent Bangladeshi journalists — Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Haque Babu, and Farzana Rupa — in a crimes against humanity case reportedly arising from alleged statements and journalistic activities connected with the July 2024 uprising.

URGENT APPEAL: Call for Prompt Action to Safeguard the Sexual Minority Intern Doctor at Chattogram Medical College Hospital

Paris, France | 18 August 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses grave concern over reports that Dr. XXX, an intern doctor at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), has been subjected to public condemnation, discrimination, professional exclusion, and a declared boycott over allegations concerning same-sex conduct and his actual or perceived sexual orientation.

URGENT APPEAL: Call for Prompt Action Over Alleged Police Assault on Journalist After Filming Police Beating a Woman in Dhaka

Paris, France | 17 August 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses grave concern over the reported assault on Bulbul Hossain, a multimedia reporter for Global Television, allegedly by police officers inside a police van in Dhaka after he reportedly filmed police officers assaulting a woman near the Bijoy Sarani intersection.

BANGLADESH ALERT: JMBF Strongly Condemns Arbitrary Arrest of 15 Lawyers, Including Five Women, Under Anti-Terrorism Act in Chottogram

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Paris, France | 16 August 2026: France-based international human rights organisation JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses its grave concern and strongest condemnation over the reported arbitrary arrest of 15 lawyers, including five women associated with the Chattogram District Bar Association, in the Double Mooring area of Chattogram on the night of 15 August 2026.

OP-ED: Why Is the BNP Government So Afraid of Dhanmondi 32?

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Advocate Shahanur Islam

Is Dhanmondi 32 merely an address? A demolished house? Or is it such a powerful symbol of Bangladesh’s history, the Liberation War, political memory, and national identity that, although it may be physically destroyed, it cannot be erased from history? On 15 August, this question has once again emerged with even greater urgency: Why is the government so afraid of Dhanmondi 32?

BANGLADESH ALERT: Arbitrary Mass Arrest of 53 Awami League and Affiliated Organisation Leaders and Activists, Including Women, in Dhaka

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Paris, France | 14 August 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF), a France-based international human rights organisation, expresses its deep concern, strong condemnation, and protest over the arbitrary mass arrest, under the Anti-Terrorism Act, of 53 leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Awami League and its affiliated organisations from a residential building in the Bhatara area of Dhaka on the night of 13 August.

BANGLADESH ALERT: JMBF Expresses Deep Concern over the Cancellation of Residential Seats of Two University of Dhaka Students over Allegations of “Homosexuality”

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Paris, France | 12 August 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF), a France-based international human rights organization, expresses its deep concern and strong condemnation over the permanent cancellation of the residential seats of two first-year students of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall at the University of Dhaka and their forced removal from the hall on 11 August, following allegations that they were involved in so-called “homosexuality.”

BANGLADESH ALERT: JMBF Expresses Deep Concern over the Extrajudicial Killing of Bangladeshi Youth Tara Mia by BSF Gunfire at the Moulvibazar Border

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Paris, France | 11 August 2026: JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF), a France-based international human rights organization, expresses its deep concern, strong condemnation, and protest over the killing of 20-year-old Bangladeshi citizen Tara Mia, who was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on 9 August at the Maguruli border in Kulaura Upazila, Moulvibazar.