Bangladesh bloggers
CPJ lauds arrest of Tutul 'attacker'
The Committee to Protect Journalists praises the arrest of a suspect who took part in the killing attempt on publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul last year.
Year full of attacks
It started with individuals. Then shrines, mosques and temples started to become their targets while the attacks on secular and religious individuals continues.
HR groups call on US to grant asylum to Bangladesh bloggers
A coalition of human rights groups calls on the USA to grant temporary visas to secular writers from Bangladesh after a series of bloody attacks by Islamist militants.
Refusing to succumb to fear
The question we must be asking ourselves now is what this new fear means for our literary and intellectual culture in the bigger picture. It means the demise of whatever we have achieved in the past four and a half decades since our independence.
3 held over blogger Niloy murder
Detectives yesterday arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in killing blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.
#ResearchMesearch / Hope is hollow on its own
I have been silent for a while. Because I refuse to react to the brutality of the world around us, I prefer to respond. And I wanted to wait till things passed.
‘I feel insecure, like I felt in 1971’
Four days into the murder of publisher Dipan, his father Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq says he feels insecure as he had felt during the nine months of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
Neither 'isolated' nor tolerable
The politics of manipulating the religion card and the denial of responsibility of the state to ensure citizens' basic rights have put the country in a situation, from where there is no immediate return.
It must be stopped
Emboldened by the government's lack of action, the extremists will eventually expand their attacks on liberals, politicians, journalists, writers and anyone who disagrees with their views and approach.
Freethinking Mauled Once Again
In what appeared to be synchronised attacks on publishers of slain secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy, unknown assailants hacked to death Faisal Arefin Dipan of Jagriti Prokashani and critically injured Shuddhoswar's Ahmedur Rashid Tutul yesterday. The body of 43-year-old Dipan was recovered from his second-floor office at Aziz Market in the capital.
Attack on publishers: Gonojagoron demo tomorrow
Following the brutal attacks on country’s publishers that killed one and injured three others, leaders of Gonojagoron Mancha calls for a countrywide demonstration tomorrow.
Free speech under attack as never before: HRW
Human Rights Watch today observed that the free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before in the country.
Blogger killings: 'Mastermind' held in Dhaka
Law enforcers claim to have arrested three militants of Ansarullah Bangla Team from Dhaka including the mastermind of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy killings.
Erosion of trust on police
The report in this newspaper yesterday about how the bloggers are losing trust in the law enforcing agencies regarding their capability and indeed willingness to provide them with the minimum of security is very distressing.
No time to shilly shally
Five bloggers have been killed in the last five years. And except for the alleged killers of Ahmed Rajiv Haider, no others have been brought to justice yet.
THE SOVEREIGN TERROR
Political events often fade away without leaving immediately palpable effects. Loud as their arrivals are, most political events tend to disappear much like a whimper.
Serial killing of bloggers
It is disquieting to note that the law enforcing agencies have not yet been able to make any tangible progress in connection with the murder of the four bloggers who were killed in the last seven months.
UN experts urge probe into blogger Niladri killing
United Nations’ experts on freedom of expression condemn the killing of Bangladesh blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay.
Home boss gets death threats
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan and 6 notable personalities receive death threats from Al Qaeda Ansarullah Bangla Team-13.