Archive for the ‘Military Rule’ Category

No to Military Rule and no to media censorship!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

well after all that drama, tasneem was released around 24 hours of his arrest...thank goodness! questions still remain unanswered and clearly it was a close shave..will the next journalist/critic of power be so lucky? the whole issue of media censorship can't be ignored and the big thing of course is ...

BREAKING NEWS: Tasneem Khalil arrested by Military Police in Bangladesh

Friday, May 11th, 2007

via Pickled Politics ( thanks Sunny!) "Prominent journalist and fellow blogger Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the military police in Bangladesh, a serious attack on press freedom in the country. An editor and outspoken journalist for the English daily newspaper Daily Star, he also worked for CNN and Human Rights ...