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Bangladesh elections: My husband died in jail weeks before vote

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“Yes, you can speak freely but nobody is going to take responsibility for the consequences,” said Nasrul Islam, a senior leader of the BNP. He said people who spoke freely were arrested, beaten, tortured and then some of them were killed in jail. Even he takes precautions, no longer sleeping in his house at night, because “that’s when authorities come and arrest people.”

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