Hindu minorities

Bangladesh: Hindu Woman Beaten to Death Inside Her Home in Coomilla’s Chandina

Hindu Voice Team: A 58-year-old Hindu woman was allegedly beaten to death by unidentified assailants after they entered her home in Chandina upazila of Comilla district on 17th of August, Monday night. The incident took place at around 8:30 p.m. at Shil Bari in the Southpara area of Barkoit village under Barkoit Union. The deceased, …

Bangladesh: Teenage Girl Dies Four Months After Converting to Islam in Jhenaidah district

Hindu Voice Team: A 14-year-old girl, identified as Mariam Khatun alias Sujata Karmakar Barma, was found dead inside a room at her home in Gilabaria village of Jhenaidah Sadar upazila on Monday (August 17). According to information provided by the family and a written application submitted to the police, Mariam was the daughter of Sanad …

Bangladesh: Kali Temple Vandalised and Set Ablaze at Pirojpur Municipal Crematorium

Hindu Voice Team: A Kali temple located within the Pirojpur Municipal Crematorium was reportedly vandalised and set on fire in the early hours of Sunday, triggering anger and concern among members of the local Hindu community. According to local sources, the incident is believed to have occurred between 3:00 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Police officials stated …

Minority Communities Reduced to Second-Class Citizens Under Interim Government: Rights Group of Bangladesh

Hindu Voice Team: Minority communities in Bangladesh have effectively been pushed into the status of second-class citizens during the past eighteen months under the interim government, a prominent academic and human rights activists alleged on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference in Dhaka after visiting violence-hit areas in Chattogram, Professor Robayet Ferdous of Dhaka University …

Saraswati Puja Under Attack: Multiple Incidents Reported Across India and Bangladesh

Hindu Voice Team: A disturbing pattern of violence, disruption, and intimidation marked the celebrations of Saraswati Puja this year, with multiple incidents reported across several Indian states and neighbouring Bangladesh. According to documented reports, at least 24 incidents of attacks or disruptions targeting Hindu devotees and religious practices were recorded during the festival period. The …

State-Sponsored Assault on Hindu Traditions in Bangladesh: Kushtia and Natore Administrations Force Covering of Asur Faces During Durga Puja

Hindu Voice Team: What began as Durga Puja preparations in Kushtia and Natore has turned into a disgraceful episode of religious interference. In a shocking directive, local administrations ordered Hindu organizers to cover the faces of Asurs in Durga Puja Mandap because they had beards and mustaches. The excuse? Such features could “cause misunderstanding.” This …

Global Outcry Needed: Younus’s Failed Regime Turns Bangladesh Into a Valley of Rape – Hindu minorities Face Systematic Persecution

Hindu Voice Team: Bangladesh today stands disgraced before the world. Under the disastrous interim leadership of Muhammad Younus, the nation has collapsed into lawlessness, becoming a valley of rape and violence. Women, children, and especially the Hindu minority are living under constant terror, abandoned by a government that has proven itself spineless and complicit. During …

Bangladesh: Century-old Manikganj Kali Mata Temple Araon And Vandalism- The State’s Silence Makes It Complicit

Hindu Voice Team: A hundred-year-old Kali temple in Garpara, Manikganj, was set ablaze in a pre-dawn arson attack on 27 September 2025. The wooden shrine and the sacred idol were consumed by fire before help arrived, leaving a shattered community and smouldering ruins where devotion once stood. The basic facts of the attack are now …

Bangladesh: The Police arrested a Muslim Youth for Vandalizing Murtis in Nilphamari, Communal Tension Rises

Hindu Voice Team: A shocking incident of Murti vandalism has sparked outrage in Nilphamari’s Sadar upazila. On 25th of September, Thursday evening, four Murtis at the Kali temple in Subarnakhuli village, under Songolshi union, were damaged by a youth, triggering anger and tension among the local Hindu community. According to eyewitnesses, women devotees were inside …

Horrific Attack on Hindu Youth in Mymensingh Exposes Rising Religious Terror in Bangladesh

Hindu Voice Team: Bangladesh reels again as religious extremism brutally targets its minority communities. In a shocking display of violence, Suman, a young Hindu man in Haluaghat Upazila, was savagely beaten by extremist elements of the Tohidi Janata following baseless accusations of blasphemy. The attackers mercilessly assaulted him, publicly humiliated him, and then handed him …