Mehedi Haque: They drew bullets when live bullets were fired

by Alan Gardner October 11, 2024

Daily New Age political cartoonist Mehedi Haque reflects on what it was like to draw political cartoons in Bangladesh during the student-led protests and the government’s violent crackdown during the 2024 revolution, which eventually resulted in the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Over the past year, people never shied away from reminding me that […]

“Freedom to draw political cartoons has been restored in Bangladesh”

by Alan Gardner August 12, 2024

Yesterday on Facebook, Tarique Rahman, Acting Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP, announced that freedom of political expression has been restored after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country. I am deeply gratified that the freedom to draw political cartoons has been restored in Bangladesh. Before 2006, Bangladeshi cartoonists, especially Shishir Bhattacharjee, often […]