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Published in: openSecurityWar crimes and international bordersAfter war, justice may come late or not at all: the decision to try defendants without them being present suggests...
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Published in: openSecurityProfessor Ghulam Azam: a flawed conviction and miscarriage of justice
On the basis of a flawed trial bereft of substantial evidence, my father has now been sentenced to 90 years in...
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Published in: 50.50Backlash against Bangladeshi bloggers
The bloggers of Shahbagh are facing a backlash – hunted by fundamentalists, denounced in mosques as atheists,...
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Published in: openSecurityReligion and after: Bangladeshi identity since 1971
Secularism was one of the cornerstones of Bengali nationalism, but its spirit was enforced only by pen and paper....
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh justice: damned if you do, damned if you don't
"One must ask what is the point in a trial where the only acceptable result is execution": have politics...
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Published in: openSecurityFree speech and Bangladesh's growing climate of fear
The latest conviction and death sentence handed down by the ICT has already sparked further protests. As the...
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Published in: openSecurityShahbagh: what revolution, whose revolution?
The protests in Shahbagh errupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Bangla Language Movement and Ghulam Azam
As the world celebrates International Mother Language Day in memory of the Bangla Language Movement, Bangladeshis at...
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Published in: openSecurityTowards partisan politics: #Shahbag and the politics of revenge
Protests at Shahbag that call for the death penalty for Abdul Quader Mollah have been hailed as a move beyond...
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Published in: openSecurityLaws of passion: the Shahbag protests
The second verdict handed down by Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal is life imprisonment. Now a death sentence is...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom transitional justice mechanism to monumental revenge: the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sinks to new lows
The Bangladeshi International War Crimes Tribunal quickly became a stage for political interference and...
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal: a critique of the critics
While criticism of the ICT is important, its chief critics have dehistoricized the context in which this trial is...
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh war crimes tribunal: further bias is no answer
The role of the media in Bangladesh will not be improved by inaccurate and partisan critiques of the ICT
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Published in: openSecurityTrial by media: Bangladesh's 'International' Crimes Tribunal
Phone tapping, court orders and vitriolic condemnations of the accused point to a disconcerting unity between the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Professor Ghulam Azam: a grandchild's accountThe arrest of a leading opposition figure in Bangladesh is a stark reminder that without due legal process,...
