Probir Bidhan: A Journo's Diary

Sharing Information And Thoughts

ট্যাগ protest

Sayedee’s DEATH PENALTY, #SHAHBAGH & frantic Jamaat-Shibir

It was evident that the fundamentalists would enforce a hartal with support of the BNP and carry out violent attacks across the country as fraud cleric and preacher of MOUDUDI Islam Delawar Hossain Sayedee has been handed down capital punishment for genocide, rape, loot and Hindu persecution in 1971. Until 9pm, the Jamaat-Shibir men have…

28/02/2013
#SHABAGH passes 10th day with million protestors

The bill to amend the ICT Act has been submitted in parliament by the standing committee on law ministry after a scrutiny. It might be passed into law on Sunday, even though the govt could do it today. The EC sat today to decide on the cancellation of registration of radical Islamic party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam but it…

14/02/2013
The rise of ‘#Occupy #Shahbagh’

I was forwarded an SMS by one friend around 3:30pm about the protest at Shahbagh and I rushed after taking leave from my office! On the way I saw very few vehicles on the street, but many rickshaws as usual, due to the shutdown called by Jamaat against the tribunal and its verdicts. Well, people…

06/02/2013
Pepper spray in Bangladesh on ‘protestors’!

The name resembles a spray bottle made of tin, probably coloured in red, which would obviously used by “police” on “aggrieved people” as a punishment for demonstrating. A can, however, says this spray could be used as a defensive tool to protect from attacks of mad dogs and mighty animals. These cans were recently used…

12/01/2013

বাংলা