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Justice for Nurjahan

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 10, 2007

Photographs Shahidul Alam Text Rahnuma Ahmed It was reported in the papers as suicide. On 10 January 1993 Nurjahan, a woman in her twenties from a struggling peasant household from the Maulvi Bazar district of north-east Bangladesh, was found dead … Continue reading →

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Online Lifeline

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 1, 1996

Subscribe to ShahidulNews ON-LINE LIFELINE Feminist writer Taslima Nasreen in hiding after receiving a death threat from Islamic fundamentalists Third World activists are using global connections to pressure the powers-that-be and even save lives. Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has little … Continue reading →

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