Alam was arrested on August 5 for making “false” and “provocative” statements on Al Jazeera and on Facebook Live during massive student protests in Dhaka. After a lower court rejected a bail petition for Alam last month, his lawyers moved to the high court in Dhaka and a hearing was set for Tuesday. But “the court did not hear the case because one of the judges (said he) felt embarrassed to hear the case,” lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua told AFP. He said Alam's legal team was now trying to get the case heard by another bench of the high court. The photographer told reporters outside court last month that he had been beaten so badly in police custody that his tunic needed washing to get the blood out.

Source: Sunday Times September 04, 2018 11:03 UTC