“They’d asked me about the stories I had written. I had to face a lot of torture. I still struggle to speak about it”. This is the words from Shafiqul Islam Kajol, a Bangladeshi journalist who is the main point of this article to tell a larger story of the complications within the Bangladeshi media landscape. Following an article which Kajol had written about a sex ring involving several politicians he was detained by hired men and then tortured for more than 50 days where he was interrogated regarding the article and several others that defaced and checked the government. The government then charged him with defamation under the instilled Digital Security Act which allows for the criminalization of online dissent. Kajol is far from the first to have this happen to him, since the installation of the DSA in 2018 hundreds of bloggers, journalists, and media personnel have been charged and detained. Kajol’s story is just one of many and such a vivid story brings to light that Bangladesh suffers from a lack of freedom of speech as it’s government seeks to silence individuals within it both in and out of legal boundaries.