{"id":6155,"date":"2026-02-07T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:36:09","slug":"sheikh-hasina-condemns-custodial-killing-of-ramesh-chandra-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6155","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Hasina condemns custodial killing of Ramesh Chandra Sen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Awami League President and five-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned and protested the custodial killing of former Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, who was denied medical care in prison by the murderous fascist Yunus regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramesh Chandra, 86, was a member of the party\u2019s Advisory Council, a former Presidium member, and a former Member of Parliament from the Thakurgaon-1 constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/albd1971\/status\/2020066873589768520\">statement <\/a>on Saturday, she said that countless party leaders and activists are being killed in a systematic manner. They are denied bail, tortured in remand, and denied proper treatment in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Custodial-ramesh-sketch-12x12.jpeg 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Ramesh Chandra Sen\u2019s hands were tied with a rope by a mob, who tortured him before handing him over to the police on August 16, 2025<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The fascist regime is killing Awami League leaders and activists by directly and indirectly instigating violence or by using the state machinery. In a planned manner, they have stripped Awami League leaders, activists, and supporters of their civil rights, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are not only turning them into stateless citizens but are also carrying out uninterrupted killings one after another. Children, the young, and the elderly\u2014women and men alike\u2014are all falling victim to these indiscriminate killings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe killing of Mr. Ramesh Chandra Sen is part of this very continuity. I strongly condemn and protest this murder. At the same time, I call upon the conscience of the world to take note of the hellish state terror being unleashed, with state patronage, against the leaders and activists of the Awami League\u2014an historic and tradition-rich political party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6145\">Custodial Deaths: Ex-minister Ramesh Chandra dies in prison due to medical neglect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=5966\">Custodial Death: Elderly Awami League leader Abdur Rahman dies in Chittagong<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=5620\">Custodial Death: Awami League leader, singer Proloy Chaki was denied medical care<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement further said that Mr. Ramesh Chandra Sen was a senior leader of the Awami League. Rising through grassroots politics, he earned recognition at the national level and was a true leader of the masses. He was arrested on baseless, fabricated, and false cases and kept in prison without trial. Despite falling ill in custody, he was deliberately denied even minimum medical treatment and was killed in a planned manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only him\u2014leaders and activists of the Awami League at all levels are being killed in this way. International human rights organisations have already published reports on the state terror and gross human rights violations carried out by the illegal occupying government. Such monstrous misrule cannot continue in the governance of a state in modern civilisation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, Bangabandhu\u2019s daughter, Sheikh Hasina, said that the illegally occupying government is running the state machinery against people of all classes and professions. The wounds they have inflicted on the body of the state in recent times are not easily healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, the Bangladesh Awami League practices politics for the welfare of the people. The party\u2019s future politics will be guided by the commitment to heal the wounds created within the state and society and to make them safe for every citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=5948\">MSF Report: Mob violence, communal attacks, custodial deaths increased in January<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6077\">HRW report highlights arbitrary detentions, mass arrests, deaths in custody<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramesh Chandra was a five-time elected MP from Thakurgaon-1 and a pillar of the Awami League. He had been battling health complications since contracting Covid in 2020. But after Yunus&#8217; goons slapped him with bogus charges, he was arrested from his residence in Thakurgaon on August 16, 2025, and hauled into prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shown arrested in three cases, including one involving murder, he was first sent to Thakurgaon District Jail and moved to Dinajpur District Jail the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramesh Chandra Sen first entered parliament after winning the Thakurgaon-1 seat in a by-election in 1997. He later won the same constituency in the 2008, 2014, 2018, and 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awami League President and five-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned and protested the custodial killing of former Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, who was denied medical care in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,646,1207,20,42],"tags":[77,46,279,1268,142,50,65,56,1200,1547,63,1548,741,64],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-emergency","category-news","category-politics","tag-awami-league","tag-bnp","tag-custodial-death","tag-false-case","tag-human-rights","tag-interim-government","tag-mobocracy","tag-muhammad-yunus","tag-prison-custody","tag-ramesh-chandra-sen","tag-sheikh-hasina","tag-thakurgaon","tag-torture-and-custodial-death-prevention-act-of-2013","tag-yunus-gang"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}