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  • Bangladesh Authorities arrest three Atheist Bloggers
     OP - April 03, 2013, 06:56 PM
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    As deadly clashes between Islamist activists and authorities continue to escalate religious tensions in Bangladesh, the country's telecommunications authority is making moves to silence bloggers deemed anti-Muslim or anti-state.

    Award-winning blogger Asif Mohiuddin and three other bloggers have become the latest target of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, according to online news site online news site Timesworld24.com [bn]. The commission recently contacted Somewhereinblog.net, the largest blogging platform in Bangladesh, requesting that the four blogs be taken down from the site.

    In a report on its website, Somewhereinblog.net officially acknowledged that it had removed the four blogs in line with the government request.

    The Bangladesh government formed [bn] a nine-member committee on March 13, 2013 to track bloggers and Facebook users who made derogatory remarks about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, a member of the committee, has requested information on a number of bloggers from different blogging platforms in an effort to ban certain writers considered insulting to Islam or anarchistic.
    This development comes after Islamists had claimed that bloggers who support the ongoing Shahbag movement – which demands capital punishment for the country's war criminals, some of which are high-ranking leaders of the country's largest Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami – are atheist and anti-Islamic, and foster anti-social elements.


    Read more
    http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/04/01/bangladesh-authorities-go-after-anti-muslim-bloggers/




    Translation: “Stop authoritarian aggression against bloggers. Blogging is our right.”
  • Bangladesh Authorities arrest three Atheist Bloggers
     Reply #1 - April 03, 2013, 07:17 PM
    The title says that the bloggers were arrested. Yet the text you quoted and the article you linked simply says their blogs were closed down without mentioning arrests.

    So which is it?
  • Bangladesh Authorities arrest three Atheist Bloggers
     Reply #2 - April 04, 2013, 12:04 AM
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    Dhaka: Three atheist bloggers in Bangladesh were today arrested here on charges of defaming Islam, as the government set up the country’s first cyber crime tribunal to prevent exploitation of religion on the Internet.

    The crackdown as well as the announcement came two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged stern action against people found guilty of defaming Islam using the Internet.


    http://www.firstpost.com/india/bangladesh-violence-three-atheist-bloggers-arrested-683030.html
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