UN's top human rights official Michelle Bachelet has called for transparent investigation into the death in custody of a writer in Bangladesh and review of the Digital Security Act, under which he was charged.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government is trying curb the people’s freedom of expression through the Digital Security Act.

A two-member committee has been constituted by the local administration to investigate into the custodial death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that writer Mushtaq Ahmed was tortured to death in prison.

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in police custody on Thursday after almost 10 months of incarceration in a Digital Security Act case, was laid to rest on Friday night at Azimpur graveyard.

Thirteen Ambassadors and High Commissioners stationed in Dhaka on Friday urged the government of Bangladesh to conduct a "swift, transparent, and independent inquiry" into the full circumstances of writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in police custody.

Hundreds of students, teachers, and Civil society members offered Gayebana janaza for writer Mustaq Ahmed on Friday in front of the National Museum in Shahbagh.

The body of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in police custody on Thursday after almost 10 months of incarceration in a DSA case, was handed over to his family on Friday following completion of an autopsy. 

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed – arrested  last May in a case filed under Digital Security Act amid the Covid-19 crisis – died in police custody at around 8:30pm on Thursday.