Bangladesh: Urgently Locate Missing Journalist

Expand In this May 3, 2016 file photo, Bangladeshi journalists cover proceedings outside a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  © 2019 AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File (New York) – Bangladesh authorities should urgently locate the journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, who has been missing since March 10, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The day before he disappeared, Kajol was among those accused in a criminal case against a prominent news editor, Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, and 30 others under the draconian Digital Security Act. On March 2, Chowdhury’s newspaper, the Manabzamin, published an article describing…

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