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Dhaka, Dec 10: “I was treated like an animal in a zoo. I was permanently blindfolded — the only time they removed my handcuffs from behind my back was to eat,” said Bangladeshi journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, adding he was held in an underground cell for 53 days where he was tortured. “Sometimes they would beat me before they took me for an interrogation. I can’t put into words how painful it was,” BBC quoted me as saying. “They’d asked […]
When Covid-19 began to spread at an exponential rate across countries in January 2020, ministers and government officials in Bangladesh assured people that "adequate measures" were taken to prevent coronavirus from entering the country.