Imprisonment of Top Rights Activists in Bangladesh Triggers Global Outrage - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper

The sentencing of two prominent human rights activists to prison terms in Bangladesh has triggered shock and outrage among global rights campaigners who called their court trial "politically motivated" and said that the two activists were paying the price for exposing serious human rights violations by government forces. A court in Dhaka on Thursday sentenced…

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