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Bangladeshi Children Arrested for Political Facebook Posts

March 26, 2021 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Bangladeshi Children Arrested for Political Facebook PostsThe extent to which anti-democratic forces go to prevent dissent is quite bewildering. In Bangladesh, state police are arresting children for political Facebook posts. This alert is by Meenakshi Ganguly in Human Rights Watch:

Displaying absolute intolerance for peaceful criticism, Bangladesh authorities have arrested hundreds of people, including journalists, for criticizing or satirizing the country’s ruling party and its leaders. Even children have not been spared for posting anything to social media that could be interpreted as criticism of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed.

On March 20, authorities arrested a child for posting a video online “defaming” Sheikh Hasina and her foreign minister, as well as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

One day earlier, police arrested an 18-year-old for posting a caricature of the prime minister on social media. Last year, authorities arrested a child for “defaming” the prime minister after a local ruling party politician said the boy had “badmouthed…our mother-like leader” on Facebook.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, Bangladesh, Political Dissidents, Social Media and Democracy, Technology Dissidents

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