Bangladesh Leader Sheikh Hasina’s War on the Press

75-year-old premier grows increasingly sensitive to criticism

By: Jyoti Malhotra

When editor Matiur Rahman was recently sued under the Digital Security Act, along with reporter Shamsuzamman Shams, a photographer and some others, for a story that appeared in Bangladesh’s largest circulated daily, Prothom Alo a month ago, it sent ripples around the region and several other world capitals. 

Rahman was bailed but his re…