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Saad Hammadi
Saad Hammadi is Regional Campaigner for South Asia at Amnesty International. Twitter: @saadhammadi
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COVID-19 must not be a pathogen of repression
As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake. -
A ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya will have nowhere to go
As the world observes the International Day of Education today, nearly five million children are growing up in Bangladesh without access to education. These include not just the 4.3 million Bangladeshi children who have not seen the inside of a classroom, but also the half a million Rohingya children who have been languishing in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. -
World Press Freedom Day: Freedom of expression is good for business
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has set out an extremely ambitious vision to make Bangladesh a middle-income country by 2021, a higher middle-income one by 2030 and a “developed” one by 2041. -
Rights at stake in Bangladesh on Human Rights Day
At a time when the most powerful countries in the world are closing their doors to refugees, Bangladesh has allowed in more than 700,000 Rohingya people, who fled violent attacks by the military in Myanmar since August 2017.
