"I will continue to tell the truth and do ethical journalism," Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams said after walking out of jail and returning to his workplace, the newspaper office in the capital's Karwan Bazar
Active citizenship: If the state is responsible for creating the conditions that are making us sad or unhappy, our reaction to it as citizens is helping to perpetuate those conditions, making us equally complicit.
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Amid growing criticism over the arrest of a Prothom Alo reporter under the Digital Security Act, the United Nations Human Rights chief yesterday called upon Bangladesh to immediately suspend the application of the contentious law.
Nearly 35 hours after he was picked up from home, Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams was yesterday produced before a Dhaka court that sent him to jail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.