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Three suspected members of Neo-JMB, a militant group linked to the Islamic State IS that local authorities blamed for the July attack, were arrested in northwestern Bangladesh on Sunday and weapons and explosives were seized during a raid targeting their hideout, officials said. The raid by the Rapid Action Battalion RAB came as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina prepared to inaugurate the 63rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference CPC. Opening on Nov. We are going to host the conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Dhaka.
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In and the Bangladeshi gay scene was cautiously becoming more open. But the LGBT community has since been scared back from the streets, and to be openly gay in Bangladesh is now life threatening. Inge Amundsen wrote this op-ed for East Asia Forum , 23 March a forum of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
CLICK to receive an email notice of each new article on Erasing 76 Crimes. Bisexual architect Imtiaz Mohammad Bhuiyan was lured into a blackmail scheme and murdered in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka in March. Human rights advocates are calling for justice. JusticeMakers Bangladesh issued the following press release, which has been lightly edited for clarity, in the wake of the murder:.