The newspaper suspended operations after the Bangladesh Press Council, a quasi-judicial, government-funded body, rejected its appeal for publication against a government shutdown order
Calls come after a visit by a senior US official, who recently said Washington had not implemented new sanctions on Bangladesh’s notorious Rapid Action Battalion, an elite security force, because the force had made good progress in the area of human rights.
Global human rights groups that have long campaigned against the alleged human rights violations by the security agencies in Bangladesh, and they have cr