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Reportage, debate, analysis — Netra News is an award-winning non-profit platform of public interest journalism focused on #Bangladesh.

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🏆✨ Netra News has been awarded the prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2025 by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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NEW: Since the 2024 uprising, police have sought millions of rounds of ammunition and ordered electric stun batons — devices a weapons expert says have no legitimate use in policing.

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“With one of the world’s most extreme concentrations of power in a single chamber of parliament — that too, a rubber stamp for the prime minister — Bangladesh needs a system that better captures and reflects voters’ wishes.”

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ANALYSIS: Hunger and violence push children from home. Drugs, criminal exploitation and barriers to care make leaving the streets harder.

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NEW: Experts say @UN_PGA Khalilur Rahman appears to have breached the UN President’s Code of Ethics by recruiting Zaima Rahman, whose father appointed him foreign minister, a position he continues to hold.
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NEW: Since the 2024 uprising, police have sought millions of rounds of ammunition and ordered electric stun batons — devices a weapons expert says have no legitimate use in policing.

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NEW: Experts say @UN_PGA Khalilur Rahman appears to have breached the UN President’s Code of Ethics by recruiting Zaima Rahman, whose father appointed him foreign minister, a position he continues to hold.
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BREAKING: Anti-corruption experts say Khalilur Rahman, #Bangladesh's foreign minister, and recently elected UN President, appears to have breached the UN President's Code of Ethics by recruiting Zaima Rahman, whose father, Bangladesh's prime minister, appointed him foreign minister @NetraNews https://t.co/JYnf2bNf7L

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When hundreds of people attacked a Mandi village, police took some villagers into custody, saying it was for their own protection.

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OPINION: “With one of the world’s most extreme concentrations of power in a single chamber of parliament — that too, a rubber stamp for the prime minister — Bangladesh needs a system that better captures and reflects voters’ wishes.”

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OPINION by @AngelitaBaeyens of @Kennedy_HRC: “For a country that has paid such an extraordinary human cost for abusive and unaccountable security institutions, a change of name is not enough.”

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NEW: Bangladesh is proposing up to 10 years in prison for spreading online rumours, under a sweeping cyber law rewrite that would also make it easier to block content and harder to sue officials who enforce it.

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NEW: Officials have offered no explanation for barring Channel One’s sole reporter assigned to cover the prime minister after he posed critical questions at a press conference.

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Bangladesh says it dissolved the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an institution notorious for enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and torture. But what the new law actually did was transfer RAB’s personnel, buildings, powers and even its records to a new Special Response Battalion (SRB).

After visiting a former RAB secret detention site in Dhaka and hearing directly from a survivor of years of torture, our VP of International Advocacy and Litigation, @AngelitaBaeyens, saw firsthand the traces of these abuses and efforts to conceal the evidence.

Rebranding the RAB as the SRB is not genuine reform. Bangladesh cannot build a rights-respecting security sector by simply giving an abusive institution a new name. Read Angelita’s full op-ed in @NetraNews ⬇️.
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NEW: Bangladesh is proposing up to 10 years in prison for spreading online rumours, under a sweeping cyber law rewrite that would also make it easier to block content and harder to sue officials who enforce it.

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A single fake-news operator in Gaibandha used 29 Claude accounts to manufacture Bengali news for social media, the company says.

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NEW: Taslima was having seizures when her family took her to Munshiganj Sadar Hospital after a suicide attempt. She was 25. Her relatives said they pleaded with doctors for treatment, only to be told that it was a police case.

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NEW: Unlike India, where Hindu family law was codified in the 1950s, Bangladesh has undergone no comparable overhaul, leaving Hindu women with no statutory right to divorce under Hindu personal law.
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NEW: For decades, human rights reporting on the Chittagong Hill Tracts has centred largely on the state. Far less attention, within the region or beyond it, has gone to a second conflict: the killing of hill people by hill people.

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OPINION: “Every verified record is a witness to history that could hold up long after political convenience had rewritten the official story. And that is the point of an archive,” writes Apon Das of @techglobalinst.

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OPINION: Our photograph is passed around as proof of July’s inclusivity. Two years on, the freedom it showed is the one Bangladesh seems least willing to grant.
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