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– Bangladeshi blogger Asad Noor arrested for 'defaming' Islam (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 13, 2018

The blogger faces between seven and fourteen years imprisonment for a 'blasphemous' Facebook post.
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