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As It Happens, Thursday Edition | CBC RadioThursday, April 7th, 2016

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to FleeIf you’ve seen any news headline on Bangladesh in Western media over the past 15 months, odds are strong the headline included the phrase “hacked to death”: Writer hacked to death outside a book fair. Blogger hacked to death on his way to work. LGBT activists hacked to death in their apartment. T

Raihan Abir: The Rhetoric of ResistanceIn the fall of 2019, PEN Canada collaborated with Ryerson's Community Engaged Learning & Teaching (CELT) initiative and Literatures of Modernity graduate program in the Faculty of Arts to bring members of our Writers-in-Exile network into the classroom.

Understanding the crisis in BangladeshCJFE monitors, defends and reports on free expression and access to information in Canada and abroad. Rooted in the field of journalism, we promote a free media as essential to a fair and open society.

'I had to leave everything behind': Life on an Islamic militant kill listWhen Islamist extremists threatened to kill Raihan Abir, he sought sanctuary in Canada. But he says he still holds out hope for his country.

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