Academics, writers, artists urge Bangladesh #FreeShahidul
From the Blog beenasarwar *[image: FreeShahidul]* *Academics, writers, artists and journalists around the world , including Noam Chomsky, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Patrick Farrell, celebrated writer Bapsi Sidhwa, artist and daughter of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz Salima Hashmi, historian Ayesha Jalal, Urvashi Butalia, and others from Harvard to UC San Diego, have urged the Bangladesh government to free the detained photojournalist Shahidul Alam, picked up on 5 August — see statement and endorsements below. See also eminent photographer Raghu Rai's powerful open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. and the Change.org petition urging Dhaka police to drop charges and release him.* *Shahidul Alam's detention underlines the growing crackdown on dissenting voices in Bangladesh, in a pattern that is pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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