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Call on the Bangladesh authorities to release a cartoonist imprisoned for “hurting religious feelings”
RELEASE CARTOONIST IMPRISONED FOR “HURTING RELIGIOUS FEELINGS”
4 January 2008
Protestors against publication of cartoon burn copies of the newspaper in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 (…)
, by EVANS Rachel
On the night of March 25, 1971 the Pakistani army began a campaign to murder and rape thousands of Bengalis in an attempt to curb the rise of the Bengali national independence movement in what was then East Pakistan — Bangladesh today.
“Kill three million of them”, Pakistani President Yahya (…)
, by HUQ Saifu
Comrade Saiful Huq, General Secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, attended the entire Congress [of the CPIML “Liberation” in India ] along with a delegation comprising Nasiruddin Ahmed Nasu (Politburo [PB] Member), Abdus Salam (PB Member), Bahnishikha Jamali (Central Committee Member), (…)
, by CINPRAGCC, DUMMETT Mark
BBC News, Dhaka
Some 10,000 textile workers defy a ban on protests in Dhaka (22/09) The workers defied a government ban on public protests Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, have defied a ban on public protests to demand better pay and conditions.
The dispute had (…)
, by THAKURIA Nava
The caretaker government is being accused of human rights abuses as mucking out the mess in Dhaka takes an ominous turn.
Concerns are growing both inside and outside Bangladesh that the January military takeover has spawned widespread human rights violations including scores of extrajudicial (…)
, by BOSE Soumitra
If things come the Bush-Blair or rather Empire way, we would have all over the earth what we now see in Bangladesh. The country is run now by what is eulogized as a “caretaker government”! Yes, care is what they are taking, of what, however is the question? Political activities are banned. It (…)
Bangladesh pressed over UN expert
BBC News, June 7, 2007.
UN officials are urging the authorities in Bangladesh to clarify the fate of a UN human rights expert prevented from leaving the country since mid-May.
Sigma Huda, a UN special rapporteur on people trafficking, faces charges (…)
, by SOBHAN Rehman
Rehman Sobhan examines the implications for the country of Prof. Yunus’s decision to retreat from the political stage.
The precipitate withdrawal by Prof. Muhammad Yunus from the political arena was an unexpected as was his announcement of launching a party. The emphasis is on the word (…)
, by THAKURIA Nava
The military has put restrictions on Bangladesh’s politicians and derailed the two women at the center of the country’s fevered political system. The country awaits the end game.
After nearly a generation of desperate and debilitating democracy dominated by two women who hated each other (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
PROTECT TASLIMA NASRIN
A petition is being circulated urging the Indian government to protect Taslima Nasrin, an exiled Bangladeshi author, after an Indian Muslim groupoffered a 500,000 Rupee (US$11,800) bounty for her beheading.
The president of the All India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza (…)
, by BHATTACHARYA Chandrima S., KHAITAN Tarunabh, MENON Nivedita, MUKHERJI Chandrasekhar
Chandrima S. Bhattacharya meets the girl who was publicly stripped, beaten and photographed in a Bengal village for being “like a boy”.
The Telegraph February 15, 2007
Boro Chupria is a small village about 25 km from Krishnagar. It is a pretty village, with its huts of mud, brick and (…)
, by SOBHAN Zafar
Sunday, February 11: Joint forces arrest S.M. Nuruzzaman, ex-commissioner of the Phulbari town municipality and a leader of the Phulbari chapter of the national committee resisting the Phulbari coal mining project. Nuruzzaman was instrumental in organising the anti-mining protests at (…)
, by AHMED Farid
DHAKA, Feb 5 (IPS) - The detention of over a dozen high-profile politicians by the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh, on Sunday, has raised a storm of protests by rights groups and the country’s two main political parties.
Those taken into custody include former ministers (…)
, by CHENG Eva
On January 31, Bangladesh’s acting electoral commission chief Mahfuzur Rahman and his four deputies resigned, paving the way for the country’s caretaker government to appoint new commission members as demanded by the main alliance of opposition parties.
The resignations followed a ruling the (…)
, by Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, January 26, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about new regulations imposed by the Bangladeshi interim government that severely restrict news reporting. The Emergency Powers Rules of 2007, announced on Thursday, restrict press coverage of political (…)
, by ANAM Tahmima
When Tahmima Anam went home to Dhaka to cast her vote in the now-postponed election, she found a nation in chaos, tormented by corruption and brutality.
On 10 January 1972, my father came home to his country for the first time. It was three weeks after the end of the Bangladesh war, and (…)
, by JAFFOR ULLAH A.H.
The vicissitudes of Bangladesh politics since late October 2006 surprised the most political pundits. No one could have predicted the way things have turned out in just 75 days. Naturally, the question that confounds any analyst of Bangladesh politics is: who is behind the sudden change in (…)
, by The Economist
WHEN Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh’s president, declared an army-backed state of emergency on January 11th and cancelled the election due on January 22nd, neither he nor the foreign governments quietly cheering him on used the word “coup”. Yet that is what it looks like. The army, in the (…)
, by SKEERS Jake
In a desperate bid to end weeks of political turmoil, Bangladesh’s president Iajuddin Ahmed announced last Thursday that he was postponing national elections due on January 22, imposing a state of emergency and stepping aside as head of the interim caretaker government.
The president had been (…)
, by HASHMI Taj
After witnessing ten weeks of political standoff, rioting and killing of more than forty political activists on the street by members of political rivals, Bangladesh is now under Emergency rule. On January 11th, President Iajuddin Ahmed declared the State of Emergency as the country was heading (…)
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