Secularist blogger Siddhartha Dhar was included on the list of 84 bloggers targeted for perceived insults against Islam. After the murder of his colleague, Ananta Bijoy Das, he was forced to flee Bangladesh.
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Poet and journalist Anisur Rahman talks about the Bangladeshi government’s accountability in the attacks on secularist bloggers.
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An interview with writer Anisur Rahman about press freedom and the persecution of secular bloggers in Bangladesh.
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“We are obeying the laws of the land and the Constitution. We are not obeying the oppression and criminalization of dissent.”
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Armen of Armenia and Birgül Oğuz, residents of the International Writer’s Program at the University of Iowa, on the power of word to change the world.
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The founder and president of the Burundian Union of Journalists on what the government’s hostility towards the media means for the country’s future.
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Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonilla, better known as “Bonil,” talks about his beginnings as a cartoonist and President Rafael Correa’s current suppression of the press.
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