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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