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Monday, August 29, 2016

Kerry's visit to Bangladesh

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Kerry at the house where Sheikh Mujib was murdered The significance of the current trip to Bangladesh of the US Secretary of State, Joh...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The ten fictions of the ‘TerroristObserver’ website

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When I made a film about 1971 war crimes , people alleged that I had taken money from the Awami League; when I wrote about the Internatio...
Monday, May 2, 2016

The '$300 million plot?' - lies, damn lies and Bangladesh political parties

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In Bangladesh politics, there is minimal - if any - respect for basic facts. This is particularly evident by the way in which politic...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

'Plot to kill Joy' - The article that bdnews24.com refused to publish

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Toufique Khalidi, Editor in Chief Yesterday, I was told that bdnews24.com had refused to publish an op-ed on the the alleged 'plo...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

A response to bdpanorama - should one laugh, cry, sue or what?

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What does one do when a news website in Bangladesh publishes total defamatory rubbish about you and your family - and then gets 13,000 Fa...
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The so-called 'plot to kill Joy' - This is what we know

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Yesterday, t he Indian news website The Wire published an article on the so-called plot 'to kill' Sajeeb Wazed, the son of the ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The need for nuanced history about 1971

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Syed Badrul Hasan has written an article for bdnews24.com criticising an oped I wrote  concerning the proposed new law crimanalising p...
Monday, April 11, 2016

"Bangladesh's deeply politicised, dysfunctional criminal justice system"

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The International Crisis Group has published a new report on Bangladesh (which I have written briefly about here ) and whilst I don'...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Bangladesh Liberation War (Denial, Distortion, Opposition) Crime Law’

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Last week, a New York Times oped criticised the breadth of the Bangladesh Law Commission's proposed new law, now titled, ‘Bangladesh ...
Friday, April 8, 2016

ICIJ 2013 leak database

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There are some misleading reports in the Bangladesh media ( like this one ) that suggest that Bangladeshis have been named in 'The Pa...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Top AL family set up offshore company network

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One of the big international news stories right now is the leak of information concerning the establishment of off-shore companies b...
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Bangladeshi businessmen's link to offshore companies revealed

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This article was originally published on 14 July 2013 in The New Age , and is part of a series on offshore companies set up by Banglad...

Legality of offshore companies, bank accounts

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This article was originally published on 12 July 2013 in The New Age , and is part of a series on offshore companies set up by Ban...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Was the International Cricket Council right to suspend Taskin?

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This is an updated post. ---------------------------- My very good friend, the excellent lawyer Mustafizur Rahman Khan (who has also ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

How a High Court order in Amar Desh editor defamation case can help Mahfuz Anam

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Extract from High Court involving Amar Desh A legal response to the Awami League (and the Bangladesh government's) vilification of...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Four factual blunders by Sajeeb Wazed in new facebook post

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Sajeeb Wazed, Bangladesh's prime minister's son has made a second facebook post in support of legal action against the editor of...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The increasing absurdity of the Mahfuz Anam affair

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A thoughtful Bangladeshi friend of mine told me the other day that he was glad what was happening to Mahfuz Anam. I asked him in astonis...