Human Rights Watch: Bangladesh - Pandemic as Pretext for Authoritarian Crackdown
January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (TNSRep) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Jan. 13:
Bangladesh's Awami League-led government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to censor free speech and crack down on critics, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. The authorities arrested journalists, artists, students, doctors, political opposition members, and activists who spoke out against the government's response to the pandemic, or otherwise criticized the rul . . .
Bangladesh's Awami League-led government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to censor free speech and crack down on critics, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. The authorities arrested journalists, artists, students, doctors, political opposition members, and activists who spoke out against the government's response to the pandemic, or otherwise criticized the rul . . .