How Hasina became a predator of press freedom
ReviewedThe Business Standard · 21 Aug 2024
Public analysis of press-freedom erosion, cyber-law use, and institutional control during the Hasina government.
View sourceA senior Awami League figure and former information minister discussed in the context of media regulation and press-freedom debates.
Aliases: Dr Hasan Mahmud, হাসান মাহমুদ
The Business Standard · 21 Aug 2024
Public analysis of press-freedom erosion, cyber-law use, and institutional control during the Hasina government.
View sourceThe Business Standard · 31 Mar 2023
Public report on Hasan Mahmud's comments after a Prothom Alo journalist's arrest and his defense of digital security law context.
View sourceThe Business Standard · 27 Jul 2026
The report says ICT-2 took cognisance of formal charges against Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over the 2013 Hefazat rally and reported prosecution claims concerning 58 deaths.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 27 Jul 2026
BSS reports that ICT-2 took cognisance of the formal charge over the May 5, 2013 crackdown and ordered accused in custody to be produced while warrants remained outstanding for absconding accused.
View sourcebdnews24.com · 27 Jul 2026
The report describes the complaint filed in 2024, the tribunal's acceptance of charges in 2026, 31 absconding warrants, and competing prosecution accounts of the death toll.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 12 Mar 2025
The Daily Star reports arrest and production warrants in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and attributes allegations about planning and responsibility to the prosecution.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 24 Aug 2025
BSS reports an ICT order permitting interrogation of several accused in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and describes the complaint brought on behalf of Hefazat leaders.
View sourceHuman Rights Watch · 1 Aug 2013
Human Rights Watch documented the 2013 protest violence through interviews and described the casualty and force accounts as contested and requiring independent investigation.
View sourceOdhikar, reported by Dhaka Tribune · 15 May 2013
The report attributes a total of 61 deaths to Odhikar's account of the May 2013 operation; this figure is presented as a rights-group claim rather than an established judicial finding.
View sourceIncluded because public records identify his ministry role and reporting documents his statements defending media-law enforcement and government press-freedom positions.
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Public roles are source-confirmed; controversies or allegations must be read separately as source-backed evidence-layer material.
Bangladesh
Reported themes: media regulation, official communications, Digital Security Act/Cyber Security Act debate, press-freedom criticism.
The public-interest value is understanding how power in state institutions, policing, media, urban governance, or finance is discussed in records.
Sources include official statements defending Bangladesh's press-freedom record and news reporting on his comments after a journalist's arrest under digital-law context.
Next steps should model each claim, case, court order, response, or correction as a separate structured record.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE · OFFICIALLY INVESTIGATED
Rights groups, human-rights reporting, and later ICT proceedings present differing accounts of the May 5-6, 2013 operation, casualties, and use of state force around the Hefazat rally.
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GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN · 2013-05-05 2013-05-06
A record of the May 5-6, 2013 rally and operation around Motijheel's Shapla Chattar, competing casualty accounts, and later ICT proceedings.
Casualty counts vary substantially by source: 2026 tribunal reporting refers to a prosecution account of 58 deaths, a 2013 rights report attributed 61 deaths to Odhikar, and contemporary reporting also described a lower government count. None should be presented as a final judicial finding.
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