After 9 Days Amar Desh published again...
Latest on Mahmudur Rahman
DHAKA. 10 June 2010. Bangladesh Judiciary is perhaps coming to senses to restore its dignity that was lost in the public eye when the declaration of Amar Desh was cancelled on 1st June;Consequently, privileged by administrative decision, the regime displayed brutal terror of armed police battalion to arrest Mahmudur Rahman.
In such dark scenario, the bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif stayed for three months the government's decision to close down Amar Desh ordered and implemented by the District Commissioner. If judicial gesture of some benches reiterates the commitmen (Read More )
Punishing the dissenter
Concerns about Safety of Mahmudur Rahman
The chronology of events that led to the arrest of Acting Editor of Amar Desh is scandalous by the very nature by which government abused executive power misused legal instruments and scrapped constitutional rights.This will create serious problem in the efforts of the people to enable rule of law. Despite already precarious situation of Bangladesh, people intends to see a reasonable space within the present nature of power to practice democratic values. Silencing the dissenting voice is also embarrassing for Bangladesh development partners who often sermon on human rights, freedom of (Read More )
Who Wants Bangladesh?
The present government is termed “the government of change”. Do you think the changes have begun?
‘Din badal’ is the script of a mobile company, the advertisement in the time of political decadence and signifies our slavery to transnational corporations and neoliberal ideologies undermining our national interests, security and sovereignty. Even the so called ‘muktijuddho’ ( war of liberation) has become a commodity to sell products and services of (Read More )