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Zyma Islam

Dhaka
As seen in: The Daily Star (Bangladesh), University of Oxford, Dawn, Inter Press Service, The Week (India), myRepública, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Asia News Network (ANN), The Bangladesh Chronicle
Dung beetle at @dailystarnews . More active at facebook.com/zyma.islam90 #CUJ15
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Budget mostly reflects BNP’s key polls pledges

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By Sajjad Hossain, Zyma Islam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
In its first budget in two decades, the BNP government yesterday boosted allocations for education and health and significantly expanded social safety programmes, reflecting its key electoral pledges. However, its pledges to prioritise other sectors and issues such as agriculture, wealth tax, solar energy, and a bullet rail network were not reflected in the budget.
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Inability to probe disciplined forces shackles NHRC

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By Zyma Islam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
The National Human Rights Commission’s current inability to investigate disciplined forces remains a major structural barrier to eradicating state-sanctioned human rights abuses in Bangladesh, according to United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Dr Alice Edwards, who called for urgent legal reforms to align the body with global independence standards.
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Journalists held without trial for up to 620 days

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By Zyma Islam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
As countries around the globe today celebrate the World Press Freedom Day, five senior journalists remain behind bars for between 593 and 620 days in Bangladesh. None of them have been formally charged since their arrest after the 2024 July uprising. The deaths of the July protesters they are being held over are real, but the charges they face seem unreal.
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