Tag Archives: Bangladeshi

Bangladeshi national found dead in Yumbe lodge

Bangladeshi national found dead in Yumbe lodge

Police in Yumbe district, northern Uganda, are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suspected death of a 54-year-old Bangladeshi national. Poni Islam, a resident of Lomunga town council in Yumbe and an employee of WKK Company, a contractor on the Yumbe–Terego tarmac road project was found dead inside a lodge on Saturday morning. According to North West Nile police spokesperson Collins …

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Bangladeshi repression extends far beyond LGBTQ community

Location of Bangladesh in South Asia. (Map courtesy of GISgeography)

‘Lawyers are detained not for what they did, but for what they might do. ‘ Location of Bangladesh in South Asia. (Map courtesy of GISgeography) The human rights group JusticeMakers Bangladesh in Paris has documented and protested an unending series of attacks on LGBTQ Bangladeshis, which have escalated under the interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. …

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