Shahanur Conducts workshop on Transparency for Human Rights in Bangladesh

CHADPUR, May 31, 2011 

A daylong workshop on “Transparency for Human Rights in Bangladesh” was held on Saturday in Chandpur at the auditorium of Chandpur Press Club, the workshop was organized by the “National Network for the Concerned Journalists” in collaboration with JusticeMakers Bangladesh and Relief International . Advocate Shahanur Islam

FACT FINDING REPORT: Indigenous student beaten and tortured by the police during peaceful procession

Dhaka, August 15, 2011
Government security forces have denied any fault after physically attacking and indiscriminately beating 22 Jumma students during a peaceful demonstration of around 900 students of Khagrachari College for constitutional recognition of indigenous people in Bangladesh on the 7^th of August 2011. Global Human Rights Defence Country Observer for Bangladesh and Co-Founder of JusticeMakers Bangladesh Advocate Shahanur Islam along with a team of four went to Khagrachari

Shahanur Islam Conducts Training on Torture and Human Rights

Khulna, September 24, 2010

Shahanur Islam, JusticeMaker fellow, conducted his training session on torture and human rights in a bid to strengthen prisoners’ rights throughout Bangladesh on September 23, 2010. The training was a collaborative event inaugurated by Fiorez Ahmed, the public prosecutor for Khulna Court and Sunil Chandra Das, the vice-

Warrants Issued for Arrest of Four Policemen Alleging Torture in Remand

Dhaka, September 23, 2010

The Chef Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM), Dhaka issued warrants for arrest of four police officers, including former Ramna police officer-in-charge Mahbubur Rahman on Wednesday September 22, 2010, t in connection with torturing a Chhatra League leader in custody  to force ‘false admission’ in the case of attempt on the life of Dhaka University teacher Humayun Azad in

URGENT APPEAL: OMCT & FIDH concerns on death threats against Mr. Shahanur Islam

Switzerland, March 23, 2009

The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources, including ODHIKAR, of threats received by Mr. Shahanur Islam, Secretary General and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Human Rights and Development, Programme Manager of Legal and Human Rights Affairs at the Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights & BRCT

URGENT APPEAL:CCBE Concerns regarding the situation of human rights lawyer in Bangladesh

EUROPE, September 06, 2011
The CCBE writes to express its serious concerns over the situation of Mr Shahanur Islam, a lawyer and general secretary of the Bangladesh Institute for Human Rights (BIHR), who has received death threats in Bangladesh.The CCBE is informed that on 9 January 2011 Mr Islam undertook a fact-finding mission on the violation of minorities

Shahanur Islam Works to Resolve Case of Unlawful Arrest

Dhaka: Octobr 20, 2010

On October 6, 2010, Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Badal was arrested by the Drug Control Directorate police of the Ramna zone in the Dhaka metropolitan area. He was detained on the charge of being an accomplice to a drug smuggler who resided in the same building. On October 12, 2010, Adv. Shahanur Islam Saikot, JusticeMaker Fellow