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Protesters offer Friday prayers during a demonstration against the death in prison of a writer who was arrested on charges of violating the sweeping digital security, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu Advertisement The Bangladesh Cabinet has decided to scrap the controversial and heavily criticized Digital Security Act (DSA) … Read more
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Advertisement Bangladesh is heading into a tumultuous election season. The country is scheduled to vote in general elections in January 2024. Elections in 2014 and 2018 were controversial and Bangladeshis as well as their country’s foreign friends are keenly observing events and guessing what lies ahead. In this article, I put forward three scenarios based … Read more
Magazine India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh all inherited over-centralized state monoliths with unitary ideologies of sovereignty from the British Raj. A woman holds a placard protesting against the sedition case filed by police against a school after a play performed by students denouncing a new citizenship law, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. Credit: AP … Read more
Advertisement In 2018, Bangladeshi journalist Shahidul Alam was picked up by police, tortured, and imprisoned for 107 days, after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera television. Following a high-profile international campaign for his release, he is now out of jail. But he is not off the hook, since the Bangladeshi government is persisting with … Read more
Beyond the Indus | Society | South Asia Beyond the Indus podcast hosts Joe Wallen and Tushar Shetty speak to survivors of the Rohingya genocide, currently living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as well as Matthew Smith, CEO of Fortify Rights. Advertisement In this week’s episode of Beyond the Indus, Joe and Tush speak to survivors of an ongoing genocide … Read more
Advertisement With Bangladesh scheduled to vote in general elections in January 2024, concern is growing over how fair the polls will be, especially in the context of the massive irregularities that accompanied the 2014 and 2018 elections, and the erosion of Bangladesh’s democracy over the past decade. U.S. officials have expressed concern over the Awami … Read more
Advertisement In December 2022, the Bangladeshi High Commission in Canada issued a statement that sent shockwaves through the Bangladeshi Canadian community. The statement urged all “peace-loving and patriotic Bangladeshi-Canadians to be aware of those spreading anti-Bangladesh propaganda from Canada” and warned that individuals and media involved in such activities would not receive consular services. This … Read more
Oceania | Diplomacy | Oceania Ukraine dominates the media landscape in a way that Myanmar’s civil war and the refugee crisis in Bangladesh don’t. Advertisement In the past week Australia has made two direct investments in global stability. The first was a sum of $8.3 million to meet urgent humanitarian needs in Bangladesh and Myanmar following Tropical Cyclone Mocha. … Read more