Digital Security Act: Misused to muzzle dissent
Incarcerated for over nine months, writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kishore were brought into the courtroom 11 days ago and produced before a judge. Nobody knew they would suddenly be brought to court -- not even their families, who have not seen them face-to-face since their arrests, because of Covid-19 regulations about visitors at the countrys prisons. Their families say this was their first trip out of prison, since they were both produced before a courthouse last year on May 6 and...
Mushtaq Ahmed Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury Sams Joglul Hossain Ahmed Kishore Pushpo Rani Sampadak Parishad
Source: thedailystar.net