As student protests swept Bangladesh earlier this year, Shahnaz Sharmeen, a veteran TV journalist, realized her daugher Ahona ...

In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories ...

With a burgeoning economy, a growing middle class, and increasing internet penetration, the country is ripe for a digital ...

A major outcome of this project was the report, “Situation analysis on online safety and privacy of journalists, women and ...

Two years ago, Nahid Islam graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor thesis that examined why no student movement in Bangladesh had ever managed to reach its goals. Little does it matter ...

The 2024 edition of the report covers June 2023-May 2024 period. As a result, the previous government’s crackdown on the internet in July’s student-led protests will be considered for next year’s Free ...

But the trouble in question wasn’t a parking fine or mystery ailment. Joy’s mother, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, was facing a popular uprising intent on forcing her ouster.

An estimated 18,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent months to escape abuses amid the surging fighting between Myanmar’s military junta and the ethnic Arakan Army, while another ...

Bangladesh is on the verge of becoming a failed state if the lynchings are not deterred,” said Monira Nazmi Jahan, Doctoral Researcher on Digital Criminology at the University of Manchester.

Like many working-class students in Bangladesh, Sayed went to college ... the students adapted, relying on digital organizing. Many of today’s student leaders are those same schoolchildren ...

With my three-week visit to Bangladesh coming to an end, I decided to get outside the capital bubble and visit the village where I did the bulk of the field research for my book “Small Loans ...

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