Dhaka, Nov. 7 -- The interim government has approved a landmark ordinance introducing the death penalty for the crime of enforced disappearance - a move that marks both a reckoning with the country's troubled past and a bold effort to confront one of its most painful human rights legacies.

The Prevention, Remedy, and Protection against Enforced Disappearance Ordinance, 2025 received its final approval on Thursday at a meeting of the Council of Advisers, chaired by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.

The law, year's in the making and fiercely debated, prescribes severe punishment - including capital punishment - for perpetrators of enforced disappearances, a crime that has long haunted the nation's political and security landscape. ...