“I’m not a famous columnist or not a very known person. So, I did not expect that this would happen to my family.”
Tanzilur Rahman, a Ph.D. student at Michigan State, wrote a Facebook post questioning a 2013 war crimes trial. Three days later Bangladesh police arrested his 58-year-old mother at her parents’ home. The charge under the Special Powers Act of 1974 is planning to sabotage vital installations, and she was denied bail as a flight risk. The government can’t reach the critic in Michigan, so it took the hostage it could reach.