Shahanur Islam is a human rights advocate based in France, a 2023 laureate of the Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders, initiated by the President of France, and Founder President of JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF). Email: shahanur.islam@jmbf.org; Website: www.jmbd.org
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Throughout Bangladesh’s history, whenever democracy has weakened, the first blows have fallen upon its institutions. The judiciary, universities, the media, and professional organizations have gradually been transformed into testing grounds for political
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In Bangladesh today, violence no longer arrives as an unexpected shock. Under the current interim government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, alongside several renowned human rights activists, violence now arrives
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