Saad Hammadi

Press freedom must be protected from the concerted disinformation patronised by some platforms and actors.

The university should abandon all party-based politics through a policy and define the scope of student politics

The blood and sacrifice of hundreds of people freed Bangladesh from the tyrannical leadership of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

There is a serious governance failure in dealing with the student demands for merit-based recruitment system in Bangladesh’s government jobs.

The DSA is being renamed to Cyber Security Act (CSA) with some cosmetic changes and hefty fines.

Essentially, if someone expresses a critical view of the achievement of Bangladesh’s Liberation War, or the country’s relationship with another nation in a Facebook status, or even in a private message between friends on WhatsApp, that individual could be subjected to criminal punishment under the DSA, intrusive surveillance under the data protection law, or censorship under the digital, social media and OTT platform regulations. 

As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake.

As the world observes the International Day of Education today, nearly five million children are growing up in Bangladesh without access to education. These include not just the 4.3 million Bangladeshi children who have not seen the inside of a classroom, but also the half a million Rohingya children who have been languishing in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.