UN human rights chief says law is being used across country to “arrest, harass and intimidate journalists and human rights defenders, and to muzzle critical voices online”

The circumstances of the Prothom Alo journalist’s arrest suggests the last vestiges of democratic culture in Bangladesh are slipping away.

The Awami League government should be concerned about The Economist’s description of Sheikh Hasina as a prime minister seeking to make the country a “one-party state”.