Committee to Protect Journalists: Bangladeshi Authorities Investigate 5 Journalists, Detain 2 Under Digital Security Act for COVID-19 Reporting
June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020
NEW YORK, June 23 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities in Bangladesh to immediately and unconditionally release political cartoonist Kabir Kishore and writer and commentator Mushtaq Ahmed and to stop using the Digital Security Act to silence critical reporting on the coronavirus pandemic.
On May 6, Kishore, Ahmed, and three other journalists were among 11 people investigated under t . . .
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities in Bangladesh to immediately and unconditionally release political cartoonist Kabir Kishore and writer and commentator Mushtaq Ahmed and to stop using the Digital Security Act to silence critical reporting on the coronavirus pandemic.
On May 6, Kishore, Ahmed, and three other journalists were among 11 people investigated under t . . .