'Unlawful': Pressure on Yunus to free journalist jailed in Bangladesh
The Morning Standard|September 27, 2024
WHILE the chairperson of the Interim government in Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus interacted with various world leaders in New York, 30 human rights activists from across the globe urged him to release human rights activist/journalist Shahriar Kabir who has been unlawfully held in Bangladesh.
- YESHI SELI
'Unlawful': Pressure on Yunus to free journalist jailed in Bangladesh

"We write... to express our deepest concern about the arrest of Shahriar Kabir, a reputed freelance journalist in Bangladesh, a documentary filmmaker, writer, humanist, and above all, an uncompromising rights activist," wrote the 30 signatories in a letter.

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