Posted on 03/30/2023 12:27:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A journalist at a leading Bangladeshi newspaper has been jailed on charges of publishing "false" news after his report on high food prices went viral.
Samsuzzaman Shams of Prothom Alo daily appeared in court and was denied bail, a day after he was arrested.
His story - which ran on 26 March, the country's Independence Day - is alleged to have "smeared the government".
Rights activists have denounced the arrest and accused the government of stifling press freedom.
Shams works for is Bangladesh's largest and the most influential daily. It was not immediately clear how long he would stay in jail.
The reporter was picked up at his home outside Dhaka early on Wednesday morning by plain-clothes officers.
His employers had no idea of his whereabouts for nearly 30 hours as police and other security agencies said they had no information on him.
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What Biden’s puppeteers want for us, in the guise of banning TikTok.
“You’ll be too poor to eat and shut up about it”
Hmmm, we can make that better. How about....
“You’ll own nothing and be happy”
bttt
I notice he didn’t say “none of us will own anything and we’ll all be happy.”
Thank God for Rand Paul. The only decent person in DC.
He might not have got thrown in jail if he said,
“We can’t afford rice but we’re all really happy!!!”
Or just
“Everything is great, and we’re all really happy!!!”
When OUR GOVERNMENT stops throwing people in jail for walking through the Capitol after being signalled in by cops, I’ll start to worry about what happens halfway around the world.
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