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Kishore’s Bail Plea: HC to pass its order tomorrow Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent The High Court set tomorrow to pass order on cartoonist Ahmed Kabir  Kishores bail petition in connection with a case under the Digital  Security Act. The court also directed the petitioners lawyer,  Jyotirmoy Barua, to inform it through an affidavit about the death of  Mushtaq Ahmed, another accused in the case. Mushtaq died in custody last  Thursday. Th...

2 minutes read Dhaka, Mar 1 (efe-epa) – Protests continued for the fourth day in Bangladesh on Monday following the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody amid calls for a review of the controversial Digital Security Act. Mushtaq, detained in May and charged under the act for “spreading rumors” on social media, was declared dead at a hospital in the central Gazipur district on Thursday, hours after he fell unconscious at a high-security prison. Different political, rights and student ...

Using JPC as shield against clash tantamount to offence: Hasan 286 DHAKA, March 1, 2021 (BSS)- Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said using neutral organization- Jatiya Press Club (JPC) as a shield against clash is tantamount to an offence. “Jatiya Press Club is a neutral national organization and it is an institution of journalists. It is open for all irrespective of opinions and political parties. So, it is really unaccepted to carry out attacks on police from there,” he said. Ha...

Police bar students from besieging Home Ministry Staff Correspondent | banglanews24.com A scuffle broke out between police and students in the capital when the latter were marching towards the Home Ministry to besiege it to press home their various demands including abolition of the Digital Security Act. Other demands include investigation into the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail, release of their eight leaders and activists and withdrawal of cases filed against them. Leaders and activist...

300 Activists Rally in Bangladesh to Denounce Writer’s Death in Prison Mushtaq Ahmed’s death has become a rallying point for renewed criticism of a controversial digital security law. By March 02, 2021 Advertisement About 300 student activists rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on March 1 to denounce the death in prison of a writer and commentator who was arrested last year on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law that critics say chokes freedom of e...

New protests over writers death in Bangladesh jail Protesters have said his death was a "custodial murder" after he was denied bail six times in 10 months AFP February 28, 2021 Protesters were out in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday demanding the repeal of the countrys Digital Security Act. AFP Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday shrugged off criticism of her governments rights record as hundreds marched in a second day of protests over the death of a prominent writer ...

Court turns down petition to take Kishore in remand A Dhaka court on Sunday rejected a petition filed to take cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in remand, in connection with a case filed under Digital Security Act. Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim passed the order after Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua submitted an application before the court on Sunday. Earlier on Tuesday, Md Afchhar Ahmed, sub-inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, submitted the three-day remand prayer for ...

Dozens were injured Sunday as Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in a third day of protests sparked by the death of a prominent writer and government critic in jail.

Bangladesh police fire rubber bullets, tear gas at opposition protesters

Mushtaq Ahmed was one of several activists and journalists targeted under draconian online defamation law.