Bangladesh - Newspaper editor freed after three months, immediately re-arrested

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Mohammad Ekramul Haque, the owner and editor of the Sheershanews.com news website and the weekly Sheersha Kagoj, was re-arrested on 1 November immediately after being released on bail by order of the Dacca high court. “We are outraged by Haque's new arrest on the very day of his release after three months in prison on trumped-up charges,” Reporters Without Borders said. “How could the judicial authorities allow a journalist to be held for 90 (...)

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