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Bangladesh Journalist Charged With Sedition

Posted January 21st, 2014 at 4:18 pm (UTC+0)
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A Dhaka court has sentenced a controversial newspaper editor to seven years “rigorous imprisonment” for “sedition.” Police arrested Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury on November 29, 2003 — yes, a decade ago —  at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport as he was about to fly to Tel Aviv to attend a writer’s conference. Choudhury is the editor of […]

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