Category: BDFA News
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Still No Closure: The Murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chattogram (2016)
On the morning of 5 June 2016, Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, mother of two, was killed near the GEC intersection of Panchlaish, Chattogram, while taking her son to his school bus. A group of men approached her from behind, stabbed her repeatedly and then shot her at close range. The killing was carried out in public,…
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DU Lecturer Files Cyber Security Case Over Edited, Defamatory Photos
Dhaka University lecturer Shehreen Anim Bhuiyan Monami, of the Department of Public Administration, has filed a case under the Cyber Security Act against four individuals accused of editing and circulating her photograph in a sexually demeaning and defamatory way on social media. The case was filed at Shahbagh Police Station on Monday afternoon. The accused…
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Primary School Music Teacher Post Canceled After Pressure from Islamic Religious Group
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has canceled the newly created post of assistant music teacher in government primary schools, following organized objections and public pressure from several Islamic religious groups, including Hefazat-e-Islam and factions of Islamist political organizations. The ministry has also withdrawn the post of assistant physical education teacher introduced in the…
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