Bangladesh rights group exposes 12 deaths in detention since protests ousted PM Sheikh Hasina
A leading rights organisation reported 12 deaths of people in detention since last year’s student-led protests, alleging torture and extrajudicial killings by security forces

Odhikar, one of the South Asian nation’s largest human rights organisations, demanded justice from the interim government that took over after the student-led protests that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
“The interim government should not let these crimes go unpunished,” Odhikar director ASM Nasiruddin Elan said. “Those involved in extrajudicial killings must be brought to justice.”
Odhikar detailed in a report how security forces during Hasina’s 15-year-long autocratic rule engaged in widespread killings to bolster her power – and accused the same agencies of continuing to commit human rights violations since she fled.
Since she left, Bangladeshi security forces have carried out sweeping arrests against supporters of Hasina’s Awami League party and loyalists of what they dub her “fascist” ex-government.