New six-month national report documents killings, kidnappings and assaults, sexual violence, attacks on temples and religious institutions, property attacks, land grabbing, arson, looting, and blasphemy-related incidents across 63 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts.
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SAN JOSE, California — July 22, 2026 — The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) has released a…
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HRCBM questions the timing and legal basis of Haridas Chandra’s midnight arrest and warns that it may reflect retaliatory enforcement influenced by religious intolerance within elements of the state apparatus
July 13, 2026 | San Jose, California / Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) expresses grave alarm over the arrest…
Dhaka, 1 December 2025 — The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) has issued one of its strongest alerts to date, warning that the systematic misuse of blasphemy allegations against minority citizens has reached an unprecedented and dangerous level. At a press conference held at the Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB), HRCBM leaders…
Coordinated attacks in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts left Indigenous villages in flames, families displaced, and fears of further violence rising.
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Khagrachari, Bangladesh — September 28, 2025 Waves of violence swept across…
Senior Advocates Sound Alarm on Collapse of Justice and Rising Minority Persecution
Date: August 1, 2025 Location: Supreme Court Bar Association Hall, Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh — The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) organized a landmark seminar titled “The Human Rights Crisis in Bangladesh and Pathways to Legal Redress” at the Supreme Court Bar…
Minority Rights, The Human Rights Crisis in Bangladesh, and Paths to Legal Redress
Byline: HRCBM Rangpur Coordinator | July 28, 2025 Rangpur, Bangladesh — A devastating episode of communal violence has forced scores of Hindu families to flee their homes in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila after a 17-year-old Hindu boy was arrested over a Facebook post allegedly defaming the Prophet of Islam. What followed was not an isolated expression…
Date: April 22, 2025 Dhaka, Bangladesh The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an ECOSOC-accredited NGO and internationally recognized human rights organization, has taken a bold legal step to address the escalating crisis of sexual violence, gang rape, and abductions across Bangladesh — particularly affecting minority women, girls, and children. Through its legal counsel,…
March 16, 2025 — In a critical move to protect minority communities from escalating legal persecution, the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) has officially served a legal notice to the Government of Bangladesh, demanding urgent intervention against the widespread registration of false and malicious cases targeting ethnic and religious minorities. Filed through Barrister…
She weeps at her father’s samadhi — the resting place of a man killed for seeking justice.
On March 4, 2025, a 14-year-old seventh-grade schoolgirl was abducted while returning home from private tutoring. She was raped overnight and dumped the next morning in a local park, bleeding and broken.
Her father, Montu Chandra Das, refused to be…
