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> This is a government that's been jailing people without trial for their Facebook posts. In this specific case, the woman was likely arrested because of her s
by brightlancer 3y ago
> This is a government that's been jailing people without trial for their Facebook posts.
In this specific case, the woman was likely arrested because of her son's post, which is obviously worse.
But the rest is common even in so-called "liberal democracies": folks are jailed after arrest for months or years before trial, and folks are arrested and jailed for "hate speech" and "causing offense" via online posts -- or the government just creates a pretext for arrest, but it was really because of the person's legal speech.
So, yes, Bangladesh is worse, but the Good Guys™ are increasingly authoritarian. The gap isn't as large as most folks think.