Human Rights Watch (via the excellent Butterflies and Wheels) has a report on the arrest—on no charges—of Tasneem Khalil, a young investigative journalist in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a government goon squad calling themselves the “joint task force.” Khalil’s “crime” has been to report on government corruption and human rights abuses, including extra-judicial killings by the Bangladeshi security forces.
The Bangladesh government has an unfortunate habit of arresting people for things that should in fact be celebrated, as in the case of Salah Choudhury.
Contact information for the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C., is here. An e-mail or letter might not do much, but at least it will signal that this sort of outrage is not being ignored.
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