BANGLADESH ALERT: College Teacher Suspended and University Teachers and Officials Attacked for Paying Tribute on the Death Anniversary of Bangladesh’s Founding President

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Paris, France | 20 August 2026: France-based international human rights organization JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) expresses its deep concern, strong condemnation, and outrage over the suspension, without any show-cause notice, of Soheli Akter, Lecturer in the Department of Home Economics at Nandangachhi College in Rajshahi, for posting a tribute on her personal Facebook account on the death anniversary of Bangladesh’s first President and founding leader, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as well as over the attacks, harassment, and threats against several teachers and officials of Islamic University and the vandalism of their offices and furniture in connection with similar Facebook posts.

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.”