Journalist leaders today express their deep concern over the threats to shut leading English newspaper The Daily Star and arrest its editor.

Two people arrested from Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila over allegedly posting Facebook status demeaning hajj.

Detectives will submit charge sheet against five members of Ansarullah Bangla Team and several unknown persons in blogger Oyasiqur Rahman killing case.

A witness identifies one of the four suspects held in connection with blogger Niloy murder, confirming that he took part in the August 7 grisly killing at Goran neighbourhood in Dhaka, cops say.

Following a string of brutal “machete” murders of Bangladeshi bloggers, an open letter today calls upon the Bangladeshi government to stop “victim-blaming” the bloggers and focus on catching the extremists who are murdering them.

Human Rights Watch today observed that the free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before in the country.

Committee to Protect Journalists calls upon the government to release journalist Probir Sikdar immediately.

With the fifth murder of a blogger spreading a wave of frustration among the general public, The Daily Star talked to people on the Dhaka University campus today to know what they were thinking about the situation.

Leading authors, including Salman Rushdie and fellow Booker prize winners Margaret Atwood and Yann Martell, call on Bangladesh's government to put an end to a spate of deadly attacks on atheist bloggers.

India's Supreme Court strikes down a controversial law which allows police to arrest people for comments on social networks and other internet sites

IN his speech on January 6, 1941, 22nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “A world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression … everywhere in the world.