It sounds bizarre: a journalist is arrested and put behind bars for sharing a newspaper report about a dead goat on his Facebook page. But this is reality in Bangladesh, thanks to the arbitrary abuse of a draconian cyber law to muzzle dissenting voices and to harass opponents. The incident in question occurred in August […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is pleased to welcome two new corporate members from Bangladesh, Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, the country’s leading daily leading newspapers, respectively, in Bangla and English. We are proud to stand with them and with you fighting for media freedom, and we know that our network’s shared commitment to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 25 other members of the IFEX global free expression network in calling on Bangladesh to grant journalist Shafik Rehman compassionate release due to his deteriorating health. Rehman was arrested in Dhaka on April 16, 2016 on suspicion of seditious activity, reportedly in relation to an alleged plot to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern about the state of press freedom in Bangladesh following the arrest of a prominent, pro-opposition magazine editor on sedition charges on the heels of the murder of another secular blogger by extremists earlier this month. Authorities on Saturday arrested Shafik Rehman, editor of popular Bengali monthly magazine […]