Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Delwar Hussain is an anthropologist based at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border (C Hurst, 2013). He is currently researching his next book, a social and cultural history of the city of Dhaka
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Published in: HomeBangladesh: contempt of court vs freedom of speechA blogger was convicted in Dhaka for his writing. A group of people who backed him in the press now faces the same...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh, in the ruins of the futureBangladesh's modern experience of industrial disaster highlights the fragile conditions in which many of its urban...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh: a state of impunity
A land whose citizens suffer injustice and cruelty without protection from law or state needs attention, says Delwar Hussain.
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Published in: HomeThe state of things: a London protest
A student protest in central London reveals the ugly face of an unaccountable government and the angry one of an...
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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant land
A racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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