The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment
JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...
Bangladesh anti-corruption court sentences property tycoon for tax evasion
Bangladeshi property tycoon Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his family were convicted in absentia by Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission of evading taxes amounting to $1.2 million and sentenced to five years in jail Sunday. Sobhan, chairman of property...
The European Union is monitoring possible human rights violations in Bangladesh , the Bangladeshi New Age reported Wednesday. The paper quoted Netherlands EU ambassador Bea Ten Tusscher as saying that the EU is concerned about several particular...
Bangladesh arrests creator of Muhammad cartoon, suspends magazine over publication
Bangladesh suspended publication of weekly satire magazine Alpin Friday after hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims protested the publication of a cartoon depicting a young boy and his "Muhammad cat," saying the cartoon ridiculed the Muslim prophet Muhammad....
The Bangladeshi interim government lifted the complete ban on all indoor political activity Monday, ahead of scheduled voting reforms talks between the country's election commission and its political parties. The ban was issued by the...
Bangladeshi officials on Monday arrested former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son on corruption and misuse of power charges, one day after another ex-PM was charged with taking bribes . Zia, who was in...
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has been charged with another count of corruption relating to a bribe supposedly taken from a Bangladesh power company, Bangladesh police announced Sunday. Hasina is accused by...
UN judicial independence expert skeptical of Bangladesh trial of UN rights envoy
Leandro Despouy , UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, expressed apprehension Thursday over the conviction and sentencing of UN Special Rapporteur Sigma Huda . Huda was sentenced to a three-year...
Bangladesh Supreme Court orders former PM Hasina held without bail
The Bangladesh Supreme Court has overturned a court order granting bail to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed , ruling Monday that she should remain in prison as she awaits trial on extortion charges [JURIST...
A Bangladeshi court has given former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia a 30-day extension to appear in court, Zia's lawyer Mohammad Sanaullah said Sunday. Zia, who was scheduled to appear before the court for tax evasion charges...
