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Journalist gets seven-year jail sentence for decade-old articles
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2029.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 10/01/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders condemns the seven-year jail sentence that a Dhaka court imposed today on former magazine editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in connection with articles criticizing Islamism a decade ago.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns the seven-year jail sentence that a Dhaka court imposed today on former magazine editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in connection with articles criticizing Islamism a decade ago, when he was arrested for trying attend a conference for writers in Israel.
Initially charged with blasphemy, sedition and treason, Choudhury was finally convicted of writing 'distorting and damaging' articles.
"Imprisoning a professional journalist because of what he wrote...
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