Mushtaq Ahmed
Cartoonist Kishore files complaint “over torture in custody”
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore on Wednesday filed a complaint with a Dhaka court over alleged torture on him in custody after his arrest under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
Mushtaq’s death: Fakhrul says it’s a ‘state-sponsored murder’
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the killing of writer Mushtaq Ahmed was “carried out by the state”.
DSA protests: March to PMO stopped outside Sakura
Law enforcers barred several hundred protesters as they reached the Sakura Restaurant in Paribagh, opposite Minto Road, in their bid to march to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to protest writer Mushtaq Ahmed's death and demanding repeal of the Digital Security Act.
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.
Protest against DSA: Police bar students from marching towards Home Ministry
Police on Monday foiled the bid of leaders and activists of some left-leaning student bodies to lay a siege the Home Ministry to press home their various demands, including abolition of the Digital Security Act.
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.
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.
'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.