Tag Archives: torture

Doctoral Complicity in State Terror

By rahnuma ahmed I take liberties with English language as I write “doctoral” to indicate the complicity of doctors and hospitals, both public and privately-owned ones, in short, the Bangladesh medical establishment’s actions which aid and abet state functionaries who … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 11, 2009
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On Forced Marriage, and Insourced Torture

Rahman’s case is one of the latest in a growing number of cases – 29, at last count – in which British intelligence services have been accused of colluding in the torture of British nationals and residents: Rangzieb Ahmed, Salahuddin Amin, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Rashid Rauf by the ISI, Binyam Mohamed in Morocco, Alam Ghafoor in Dubai, and Azhar Khan in Egypt. Rahman’s case provides the clearest indication so far, of torture outsourced Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 20, 2009
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A defining moment?

By Rahnuma Ahmed: ‘UNEASY lies the head that wears a crown,’ wrote Shakespeare. She is still haunted by memories of ‘grenades and bullets’, said Sheikh Hasina recently (New York Times, March 13, 2009). It was an obvious reference to the … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 31, 2009
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A tortured image

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed I AM against torture. Nothing justifies torture. This is a principled stand, there are no ifs and buts. But why is it that when I see a recent picture of Tarique Rahman, son of … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 26, 2008
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Ghosts

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Ian Buruma Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008 The New York Review of Books Two photographs, taken by digital camera at Abu Ghraib prison, on the night of November 5, 2003. The first picture … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 17, 2008
Posted in Human rights, media, Media issues, Military, Photography, Photojournalism, Photojournalism issues, politics, security, South Asia, war on terror | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tortured Truths

rahnuma ahmed As a little child, when I was only three or four, I couldn’t understand how people could still see me if I shut my eyes. Later, like most people, I grew up. I realised shutting my eyes didn’t … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 18, 2008
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Bangladesh Now

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were setup as a crack team to support law enforcement. Numerous accusations of extra judicial killings have been attributed to RAB, usually followed by a government press release about people having died in a ‘crossfire’. … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 2, 2007
Posted in Bangladesh, Drik and its initiatives, exploitation, Governance, Human rights, Photography, Photojournalism, politics, Shahidul Alam | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments