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ADDED 12/29/2018

Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism

FROM 12/24/2018 | TechCrunch

BY Yael Grauer

After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters took to the streets. They forced the ordinarily disorganized local traffic to drive in strict lanes and stopped vehicles to inspect license and registration papers. They even halted the vehicle of the chief of Bangladesh Police Bureau of Investigation and found that […]

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ADDED 07/29/2018

Civic space shrinks in ‘authoritarian’ Bangladesh

FROM 07/27/2018 | UCA News

BY Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario

A prominent rights watchdog has accused Bangladesh’s ruling government of human rights abuses and for diminishing basic freedoms in the South Asian nation. “Bangladesh’s human rights situation has alarmingly deteriorated over the past years, and it tends to get worse,” Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said in a statement on July 26. AHRC put the […]

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