Within this tweet a Bangladeshi girl is depicted being chased and harassed by several men as she runs through a crowded building seeking shelter among several individuals. She is being grabbed and hit while running because she chose to wear a tube top and jeans out in the public. Those attacking her are claimed to be Muslim and stricter Bangladesh citizens as the dress code within Bangladesh for women is modesty, to cover oneself and to wear long loose fitting clothing. it is against the Muslim culture to almost completely cover their bodies with some sects having women completely cover themselves except for their eyes. The continued assault and oppression of women based on the religious boundaries of Islam and the culture of Bangladesh has been evident throughout the state as this is but one of the reported and documented cases of these attacks.

A girl in Bangladesh. She wore a top and jeans. This is what happened. https://t.co/BHYZfmoOT5

— Pagan 🚩 (@paganhindu) April 23, 2023

HR: Twitter

Situation:

The brother of a Bangladeshi journalist was attacked in the nations capital Dhaka by four men with iron rods. They reportedly harrassed him while beating him commenting on his brother and his involvement with active investigations on the Bangladesh Prime Minister. The Bangladesh Journalist works for Al Jazeera  investigating high-ranking Bangladesh officials and their link to a corruption scandal. Whether this is an action by the government has yet to be seen but the personal nature and actions taken were indicators of a government or government officials actions. Acts of censorship within Bangladesh are common following media law.

Encryption:

Suppression and censorship of our nations journalists and media, today, March 24, violence was taken to silence a Bangladeshi reporter. Enemies of freedom and freedom of speech took the orders of an alleged high-ranking government official took to the streets to hunt the brother of Al Jazeera journalist who was reporting on corruption within the Prime Ministers office. Four thugs found and beat Mahinur Khan with iron rods, threatening and taunting his brother’s investigation of the Prime Minister, this is obviously an action from a high-ranking government official seeking to hide from justice. We must band together to secure a free and just Bangladesh as how can a nation that strives to be corruption free be led by corruption? We must band together and cease this suppression and corruption from the government.

 

HR: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/24/bangladesh-investigative-journalist-brother-beaten-with-rods, Example of Encryption Dan Tsurkan

“Prime Minister Sheik Hasina’s government has stamped out dissent, arresting opposition leaders and using violence against peaceful protesters”. This is a quote from an article titled, “What’s Behind Bangladesh’s Protests?”, within this article it describes the economic fallout from events such as Covid-19 and how the citizens are fed up with the Awami League’s rule over the government. These citizens are displeased with the actions in which the government has taken to quite the protest, on several occasions resorting to violence to quell the protest. These protests call for the stabilization of the economy and for the government to abolish authoritative policies such as the Digital Security Act that limits the freedom of speech. With the government and the Awami League ignoring these protests and labeling the protesters as “provocateurs”, it is an on going crisis within Bangladesh for the citizens to gain basic freedoms and economic stability on a national level.

What’s Behind Bangladesh’s Protests?

“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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63917621

The news article I have chosen to write about is an article describing the Bangladesh government’s decision to block several 191 online portals. They have chosen to do so as a result of “misleading anti-state content” has been appearing on these websites and to protect state security the Bangladesh government directed the Posts and Telecoms Division to block these “anti-state” portals. Now while examples of the “misleading anti-state content” was not listed and the severity of this content is unknown we can still gather an understanding of how the Bangladesh’s government operates in response to words aimed against it. The censorship of these articles speaks to the restricted freedom of expression that is held by the Bangladeshis and how under the government’s censorship propaganda towards changing or rebelling against the government is restricted. This raises the question as to whether the “misleading anti-state content” was misleading at all or did it paint the Bangladesh government in a poor light and was subsequently silence.

 

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