Mon Oct 1 2007 7:02 pm
Look at the young man in the picture above. That is 23-year old cartoonist Arifur Rahman. The military government of Bangladesh has found him such a threat to Islam that they have jailed him without charge and without any due process.
Read Zafa’s moving post (cross posted at E-Bangladesh) on the young man who, just a month before his arrest, received an award from the very government that has now taken his freedom away.
Arif is not a politician, nor is he a businessman, or a well-connected "civil society" type. He is a young cartoonist with a promising future. We demand that the military government of Bangladesh immediately and unconditionally release this young man. Each day this military government holds Arif hostage, it holds hostage the future of Bangladesh.
Release him now.
arifur rahman
bangladesh cartoon coup
