Great news. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the Muslim editor of the Bangladeshi newspaper The Weekly Blitz who was thrown into jail in Bangladesh 17 months ago for speaking out in favour of Israel (see my post last month), has been freed. One of the two people who campaigned for him, Dr Richard Benkin, has issued a press release which says this:
'Earlier today, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the Muslim journalist jailed after publishing articles that urged his nation of Bangladesh to recognize Israel, advocated interfaith dialogue, and condemned terrorism and the growing power of radical Islamists in the non-Arab Muslim world, was released at about 7pm Dhaka time.
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