The following is the U.S. State Department’s assessment of Bangladesh’s human rights record over the course of the last year. Without pulling any punches, at lenght: “Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and were responsible for custodial deaths, torture, and arbitrary arrest and detention. The failure to investigate fully extrajudicial killings by security forces, including several […]
The High Court declared today that the provocative Crossfire Exhibition must be allowed to reopen. Eight days after the politically charged exhibition was shut down by the police deployed to the Drik Gallery, the High Curts decision now compels the police to withdraw, thereby removing all obstruction to the conduct and proceedings of the exhibition. […]
The government’s actions in shutting down the Drik Gallery show on the Rapid Action Battalion’s Crossfire killings was provocative. I’m quite certain, though that the move was not meant to provoke student protests and legal action against the sitting government. Indeed, the New York Times Len’s blog, where the news of the photographic exhibition was […]