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Redwan Ahmed

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Bangladesh, Dhaka
As seen in: LinkedIn, MSN, MSN Australia, MSN Ireland, MSN UK, Financial Times, Nature, The Guardian, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Canada and
Covers:  I mostly cover the Rohingya refugee crisis and modern-day slavery and exploitation in RMG industry of Bangladesh.
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Redwan Ahmed’s Biography

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Currently, a multi-media freelance Journalist, working mostly with The Guardian and global news agency Agence France-Press.

I'm very passionate about reporting on Media Freedom and overall freedom of expression, slavery, trafficking, human rights issues. Also, I want my reporting to give voice to the underserved communities like transgender groups and LGBTQ+ communities in Bangladesh.
In a developing south Asian country like Bangladesh, which is under an authoritarian regime for over a decade, …

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Bangladesh sends food aid to brothels as women fight to survive lockdown

Bangladesh sends food aid to brothels as women fight to survive lockdown

The government of Bangladesh has started sending emergency food and aid to the tens of thousands of women wor…

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Workers making £88 Lululemon leggings claim they are beaten

Workers making £88 Lululemon leggings claim they are beaten

Lululemon, an athleisure brand whose £88 leggings are worn by celebrities and Instagram influencers, are sour…

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Rohingya women find peace in 'widows' camp' barred to men

Rohingya women find peace in 'widows' camp' barred to men

It is known as "widows' camp" -- a sanctuary off limits to men inside Bangladesh's congested refugee settleme…

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Rohingya 'rather die' than return to oppression in Myanmar

Rohingya 'rather die' than return to oppression in Myanmar

Disease, hunger and misery stalk the Rohingya living in Bangladesh's refugee camps but despite the grinding h…

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Rohingya women, children perish in sea voyage from Myanmar

Rohingya women, children perish in sea voyage from Myanmar

Their bodies washed up on the beach along with 17 others, all women and children risking a dangerous voyage t…

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Rain and evictions add to Rohingya misery

Rain and evictions add to Rohingya misery

Heavy monsoon rain heaped new misery Sunday on hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohinyga stuck in makeshift ca…

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Articles

India-Bangladesh relations hit new low over exiled PM's speech to press in Delhi

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By Redwan Ahmed Verified
| MSN Australia Verified
Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka and Penelope MacRae in Delhi Bangladesh has lashed out at India for allowing the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to address journalists in New Delhi, plunging already strained bilateral relations to a fresh low. Dhaka accused India of giving a platform to a fugitive it labelled a “convicted genocider” and of undermining efforts to repair ties, after Hasina vowed to return to Bangladesh in December despite facing a death sentence on charges of “crimes against humanity”.
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Sheikh Hasina vows to return to Bangladesh despite death sentence

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By Andres Schipani Verified, Redwan Ahmed Verified
| Financial Times Verified
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to Bangladesh this year, shrugging off a death sentence imposed on her after she...
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Bangladesh’s increasingly hardline religious currents pose deep social challenges

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By Redwan Ahmed Verified
| Asia News Network (ANN)
July 23, 2026 DHAKA – Singapore’s repatriation of two Bangladeshi construction workers in early July over extremist social media posts has renewed scrutiny over whether hardline religious ideas are gaining wider acceptance in Bangladesh. These cases follow the 2025 arrest of 36 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia over suspected Islamic State links, and a nationwide terror alert issued by Bangladesh police in April 2026.
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Awards

Human Rights Press Award

2018 - Human Rights-Related Reporting

Redwan Ahmed and his three other colleagues won the 22nd Human Rights Press Award in the Spot News category for their intense coverage of the early days of this Rohingya refugee crisis on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. The Human Rights Press Awards recognise top rights-related reporting from around Asia, with the goal of increasing respect for people’s basic rights and focusing attention on threats to those freedoms. The awards, which are now in their 22nd year, are organised by The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 2018 awards, for work published or broadcasted in the 2017 calendar year.

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