A Kishore cartoon. A court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday adjourned the hearing for the framing of charges against the cartoonist and six others in a case filed against Kishore Ahmed Kabir Kishore and six others in a case filed under the DSA, the Digital Security Act. The cartoonist was accused of posting ... Leer más
Mushtaq Ahmed. Photo: Lipa Akhter. Source CPJ The 53-year-old Bangladeshi writer Mushtaq Ahmed died yesterday in prison of unknown causes. Ahmed was arrested in 2020 on charges of spreading rumors and/or false news about covid-19 on social media. On May 6, 2020, the RAB, Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh, arrested the writer along ... Leer más
Ahmed Kabir Kishore in an October 2019 photo On 16 December, UN human rights experts called on Bangladesh to immediately release cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore due to his deteriorating health status. Kishore was arrested in May after his "Life in the Time of Corona" cartoons satirizing the country's response to COVID-19 were posted ... Leer más
One of the cartoons from the series "Life in times of coronavirus" by Ahmed Kabir Kishore (Bangladesh) .The Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB ) arrested cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore . Also arrested were writer Mushtaq Ahmed and two others, Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, an activist of a platform called "Rashtrachinta", and businessman Minhaz Mannan ... Leer más
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