Anger was building up against the Sheikh Hasina regime for some years over its high-handedness before students took to the streets in July 2024 and forced her to leave Bangladesh in August. Custodial torture and extrajudicial killings were rampant . Over a year on, nothing much seems to have changed under the caretaker regime of Muhammad Yunus.

A compilation of extrajudicial killings by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a Bangladeshi legal aid and human rights organisation, reveals nothing much seems to have changed in post-Hasina Bangladesh.

The ASK report documents 37 incidents of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths between January and November this year. While 14 of the deaths have been due to shootouts before arrest, 11 are attributed to physical torture in custody.

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