Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2019

International Criminal Court Authorizes Investigation Into Persecution of Rohingya By Myanmar

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Yesterday, in a 58-page decision ( full text ), a 3-judge Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court sitting at The Hague authori...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Bangladesh Court Throws Out Petition Seeking To End Islam As State Religion

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As reported by Voice of America, yesterday a 3-judge panel of Bangladesh's High Court rejected on procedural grounds a controversial pe...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

More Stabbings In Bangladesh Of Those Involved In Criticizing Islam

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Last February in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death in an attack by an Islamist group that objected...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Bangladesh Arrests Facebook Critic of Hajj Deaths On Charges Of Insulting Islam

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Last week, the free speech advocacy group Article 19 called attention to the September 26 arrest in Bangladesh of Mohon Kumar Mondal, the l...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Secularist Blogger Hacked To Death By Islamists In Bangladesh

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In Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday night, the Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death by machetes and meat cleavers in an ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Bangladeshi Cabinet Minister Fired Over Anti-Hajj Remarks

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In Bangladesh last week, the ruling Awami League party dismissed Post and Telecommunication Minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the cabinet a...