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Outcry After Bangladesh Editor Arrested Under New Laws

Agence France-Presse

   DHAKA - Rights activists on Tuesday condemned the arrest of the editor
   of a Bangladesh opposition newspaper under harsh new digital security
   laws that critics say are used to muzzle dissent.

   Abul Asad, editor of the Daily Sangram, was taken into custody on
   Friday after a publishing an article describing an executed opposition
   leader as a "martyr."

   The 80-year-old was charged with defaming Bangladesh's liberation war
   history for mentioning Abdul Quader Mollah, who was convicted of war
   crimes committed during the 1971 independence war, local police chief
   Biplob Kumar Talukder told AFP.

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