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Dhaka, Mar 1 (efe-epa) – Protests continued for the fourth day in Bangladesh on Monday following the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody amid calls for a review of the controversial Digital Security Act.
Mushtaq, detained in May and charged under the act for “spreading rumors” on social media, was declared dead at a hospital in the central Gazipur district on Thursday, hours after he fell unconscious at a high-security prison.
Different political, rights and student organizations have been protesting Mushtaq’s death since Friday
Several hundred activists of left-leaning student groups brought out a procession on Monday from the campus of Dhaka University, the main public university of the country, protesting the scribe’s death.