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BANGLADESH: DGFI Tortured to Death Labor Activist Aminul Islam

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - According to credible intelligence sources, Aminul Islam, who was found dead after apparently suffering grievously... was picked up DGFI officials and taken to Savar cantonment, where he was tortured to death.

His body was found outside the Brakhon Sashon Women College, close to the Tangail-Maymanshing highway in Tangail district.

BANGLADESH: Chief of Army Staff Into the Corruption Business

Credible sources said the car was moving towards the Sudha Sadan.

(HONG KONG) - On April 12, 2012 at around 11:30 p.m., a railway ministry car pulled over at the main entrance to the Pilkhana BGB headquarters in the capital and its driver, Ali Azam, hollered that there were stashes of bribe money in the vehicle.

BGB personnel on guard at the gate searched the car and found Tk 70 lak

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Russia`s Little Girl Soldiers

Revealing photos: girl child soldiers in Russia are product of years of militarization, but there are bigger problems.

(SALEM) - Dubbed “the Little Spies of Putin” by a French publication after photographer Sergey Kozmin documented these 'girl soldiers' in Russia for the first time, the young female cadets in Russia look serious.

Grisly Images and Mounting Evidence of Government Terrorism Recount Suffering of Balochistan

Pakistan's 'Dirty War' becomes a little less hidden every day. Extremely Graphic photos of dead bodies...

(SALEM) - Informational details and photographic evidence of war crimes against the Baloch people are continuing to emerge.

It is appalling that government terrorism is the product of a nation that actively fights the Taliban - Pakistan.

PAKISTAN: Ahmadi Leader Tortured to Death in Police Custody

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - The suspects in the dramatic police custody torture death of a school teacher in Punjab province, are with the Chenab Nagar police station.

The victim, a well respected teacher, was tortured without mercy; hung upside down and crushed; tortured to death over 35 days, several organs failing first.

Radio NPR`s Report on Violence in Balochistan

When asked which agencies were involved in enforced disappearances and killings, Balochistan communications minister Sadiq Ali Umrani quipped, "I have told you enough. If I tell you more my body will also be found along a roadside."

(SALEM) - One of American's most popular public radio stations NPR (National Public Radio) carried a news story last July about the ongoing independence struggle in occupied Balochistan.

This is a subject we explored in the recent Salem-News.com article, Balochistan & Bangladesh - Enduring Pakistan's Selective Genocide.

Human Rights Office Responds to Plea Over Political Victimization of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh

Rita Izsak noted in her annual report to the Human Rights Council that one priority will be the rights and security of religious minorities...

(HONG KONG) - A letter dispatched to Rita Izsák, Independent Expert on minority issues, with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva; brought a response from a Human Rights Officer, which is an excellent development.

This is listed below, and below that is William's original letter of appeal.

PAKISTAN: A Newspaper Terminates its Editor After Threats from Fundamentalists

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - Threats have been made toward an editor with the Lahore based daily newspaper, Takmeel-e-Pakistan, by Muslim fundamentalists, and the group Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Rislat Mahaz.

Officials were well aware of the fact that Muslim fundamentalists were agitated, but refused to provide protection to the newspaper.

PAKISTAN: Taliban Threaten Associated Press Journalist

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - A death threat has been issued against journalist Ashraf Khan with The Associated Press in Pakistan, by the Taliban.

His family has also been threatened in this shocking incident that is not being adequately addressed by the management of AP.

Mehran Baluch on Pakistan Occupied Baluchistan

More than 95 percent of people in Balochistan still use cow dung and wood to cook their food while Balochistan natural gas is supplied hundreds of miles away to the Punjab.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Addressing the UN Human Rights Council last year about severe human rights issues in Baluchistan, Mehran Baluch, the Baluch representative at the UNHRC, Baluch addressed struggle for liberation from Pakistan.

Baluch's communicated the need to promote and protect all Human Rights and Civil Civil Rights, addressing key issues involving political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right of development.