Digital Security Act: It ensured Kishore, Mushtaq cannot speak truth to power
Say protesters demanding their immediate release Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
A collective of students, teachers, and general public convened at Shahbagh yesterday to mark nine months since the incarceration of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kishore, both of whom had been imprisoned under the Digital Security Act.
They had been arrested last year for creating political cartoons commenting on the pandemic, and for sharing those on social media. The speakers demanded their immediate release. The country is going through a crisis because of Digital Security Act. This Act was formed to make sure that people like Kishore and Mushtaq do not speak truth to power, said Bangladesh Chhatra Federation s central committee president, Golam Mustafa.