Khan Khalid Adnan

A country that has lived through secret detention sites, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and the slaughter of July protesters does not strengthen its human rights architecture by reviving a weaker watchdog.

With regard to the preservation of our judicial autonomy, the real question was never whether Bangladesh would aspire to achieve it, but whether the state was prepared to surrender the administrative levers through which the courts are quietly managed.

The real question before parliament now is brutally simple. Does it want an independent judiciary, or merely a friendlier one?

The parliament’s ongoing review of the interim government’s 133 ordinances is perhaps the first real test of whether the July uprising has changed only the occupants of power, or the logic of power itself.

The review bench has acknowledged that constitutional formalism helped wreck electoral credibility in Bangladesh.

In the American case, the resolution exposes the gap between what US officials on the ground knew in 1971 and what the US state was willing to admit.

Bangladesh has just staged a rare democratic exercise: a parliamentary election and a referendum on constitutional reform on the same day.

Epstein’s is not only a story of individual depravity, but of institutional deference to wealth and status.

On January 24, an ambulance carrying the bodies of Kaniz Surbana Swarnali and her nine-month-old son, Nazim, reportedly arrived at Jashore Central Jail around 7pm.

The international order built after World War II rests on one hard rule: states may not threaten or use force to take territory.

When the new chief justice (CJ) took oath on December 28, 2025, he did so at a moment of acute constitutional importance.

Iran’s newest wave of unrest began because of money.

The United States' overnight assault on Venezuela and the seizure of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are being sold as an anti-drug mission and a law enforcement action.

Bangladesh is now running two projects of constitutional legitimacy on the issue of caretaker government.

The S Alam Group owner, Mohammad Saiful Alam, has recently taken Bangladesh to the arbitration arm of the World Bank.

The claim that soldiers are answerable only to court martial, and that a civilian-style tribunal has no jurisdiction over them, fails both on the text of the constitution and on the relevant statutes.

Bangladesh stands on the cusp of a defining choice for its digital future.

Earlier in June, there was a similar attempt when a single ship, the Madleen, was seized after a brief, well-documented effort to deliver food, medical kits and water equipment.

The path forward is now clear enough: appoint more judges, and appoint them better.

Money does not come home on press releases. It comes home case by case, with quiet diplomacy and implacable lawyering.