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Bangladesh: No Space for Dissent – Bangladesh’s Crackdown on Freedom of Expression Online Online meeting by Amnesty International Date: 23 August 2021 at 06:15 PM I, Mohammad Mazharul Islam Bhayan, Chairman of London based Bangladeshi Human Rights Organisation  Stand for Bangladesh , attended a Human Rights programme in the UK organised by Amnesty International. We discussed that Bangladeshi authorities have imprisoned at least 433 individuals under the country’s draconian Digital Security Act (DSA), according to the country’s Department of Prisons as of 11 July 2021. Most of these prisoners or at least 185 individuals are held for allegedly publishing offensive and false information online. More than 1,300 cases have been filed against about 2,000 people under Bangladesh’s draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) and nearly 1,000 people have been arrested since the law was enacted in October 2018. An analysis of print and online news by Amnesty International shows that more than 100

Human chain in London demanding the release of Jamaat-e-Islami leader and Ex-MP Shahjahan Chowdhury On 16 December 2021, on behalf of  Stand for Bangladesh at Altab Ali Park in East London, we demanded unconditional release of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Chittagong Metropolitan Nayeeb-e-Ameer, Central Shura Member former MP Shahjahan Chowdhury, who was unjustly arrested in Bangladesh on 15 May 2021. I, Mohammad Mazharul Islam Bhayan, as a Chairman of Stand for Bangladesh , conducted this Human Chain Program along with human rights activists. I said that the government was trying to inflict revenge on Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh by seeking revenge. Bangladesh government has killed the central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami in the name of war crimes to be pleased a section of the people. We want to make it clear through today's human chain that Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami believe in the independence and sovereignty of the country. At the same tim

An online protest rally was held in London condemning the arrest of Shibir leaders and activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh The UK based human rights organization Stand for Bangladesh has recently condemned and protested the unjust arrest of 05 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir (BICS) from a mess (student accommodation) in the capital Dhaka on 09 December 2021. Stand for Bangladesh Chairman Mohammad Mazharul Islam Bhayan presided over the programme, and Md Toriqul Islam conducted this online meeting. Many activists provided the speech in this meeting, including Vice President Karim Mia, Media Secretary Md. Aminul Islam, Cultural Secretary Raihan Chowdhury, ERI Secretary-General Nowshin Mostari Mia Shaheb, Md. Istiaq Hossain, Md. Alam Ahmed, Ali, Md. Panto, Abdus Samad Khan, Md. Shahjalal Chowdhury, Md Asadul, Md Hasan, Md Abu Taher, Md. Ryan Uddin, Md Ashraful Quddus, Abdul Baki and Chowdhury Tahmina Rahman, among others. In the meeting, I, Mohammad Mazharul Islam Bha

A protest meeting was held in London over the killing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activist by Police in Bangladesh On March 2, 2020, a Jamaat-e-Islami activist Hafez Nazrul Islam was shot dead in police custody in Amanulahpur village of Begamganj Upazila in the Noakhali district in Bangladesh. On 05 March 2020, I in the initiative of London-based human rights organization ' Stand for Bangladesh ', set up a protest meeting in east London. I, Mohammad Mazharul Islam Bhayan have chaired as a Chairman of the organization. Besides, journalists, intellectuals and human rights activists of various electronic and print media were present. Mr Syed Zakaria recited the Holy Quran at the beginning of the protest meeting. I, as a Chairman of Stand for Bangladesh  Stand for Bangladesh , said that on 02 March 2020 Jamaat activist Hafez Nazrul Islam was arrested and shot dead in the darkness of night. Hafez Nazrul Islam was reportedly killed in crossfire in various media

We condemn the attack on the National Daily Sangram editor Abul Asad Date: 20 February 2020 at 05:30 am We have arranged an Intellectual Seminar on 'Human Rights: Perspective Bangladesh' was held on February 20, in the initiative of  "Stand for Bangladesh" ' , a London-based human rights organization founded by Bangladeshi migrant youth in the country. I have chaired as a chairman of Stand for Bangladesh. Besides, journalists, intellectuals and human rights activists of various electronic and print media were present. Organizing secretary Mohammad Masudul Hasan recited from the Holy Quran at the beginning of the seminar. As a Chairman of Stand for Bangladesh, I said that currently in Bangladesh, there is no democracy, rule of law and human rights. On December 13, 2019, a senior veteran journalist and the daily Sangram editor Abul Assad was attacked by the barbaric Student League and terrorists of Muktijudda Moncho in his own office at Mogbazar. I

We condemn against the Police arrests on 45 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists from a picnic spot in Dinajpur, Bangladesh Saturday, 21 December 2019 I am making the following statement on 21 December 2019 protesting and condemning the unjustified arrests of 45 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists from a Picnic spot in Dinajpur including Jamaat’s Joipurhat district Ameer Fazlur Rahman Sayeed, district Secretary Maulana Ghulam Kibria, Panchbibi Upazila Jamaat Ameer Mustafizur Rahman and Secretary Maulana Suzaul Islam. “Police have unjustifiably arrested 45 Jamaat leaders and activists from a Picnic spot in Dinajpur. I am vehemently protesting and condemning the incident. These 45 Jamaat leaders and activists went to the ‘Shopnopuri’ Picnic spot, situated under Nababganj Upazila of the Dinajpur district just for the purpose of entertainment and recreation. It was not a political program at all. But police arrested them to harass them politically. They have no reason to detai