Writer Mushtaq
UN rights chief for transparent probe into writer Mushtaq’s death, review of DSA
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.
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Digital Security Act worst of all laws: BNP
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.
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Panel to probe custodial death of writer Mushtaq
A two-member committee has been constituted by the local administration to investigate into the custodial death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed.
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Mushtaq latest victim of repression, alleges BNP
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that writer Mushtaq Ahmed was tortured to death in prison.
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Writer Mushtaq laid to rest
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.
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OECD envoys appalled by Mushtaq's death in custody; demand inquiry, answers
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.
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'The government is Mushtaq's murderer': Nur
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.
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Writer Mushtaq's body handed over to family after autopsy
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.
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Writer Mushtaq, arrested under DSA, dies in custody
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.
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