Bangladeshi jailed protests
A journalist who reported on Bangladesh's covid response has been jailed. Hundreds of reporters have protested against the prison and the reduced freedom of the press in the country. uploads/2021/05/c77103a4c594728a309efc27a221b63f.jpg “/> The digging journalist Rozina Islam (center) is escorted by police to a court in the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh.Picture: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP The digging journalist Rozina Islam may be released. She is accused of stealing documents from the country's health authorities. The human rights organization Amnesty International says that it is the reporting on the country's handling of the corona pandemic that is behind the detention. – Rozina Islam has revealed irregularities in Bangladesh's health sector in recent months of the pandemic and her arrest shows a broader trend of cracking down on freedom of expression through draconian laws to silence critical voices, an Amnesty International spokeswoman said on Wednesday. of doctors and corruption within the country's health authority. Hundreds of journalists, many of them colleagues at the newspaper Prothom Alo, protested outside the police station where Islam was detained. They demand her immediate release. According to a UN legal expert, 85 journalists have been charged during the corona pandemic. All are accused of violating a law governing the protection of state secrets.