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Bangladeshi students clash with police during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 1, 2021. About 300 student activists rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday to denounce the death in prison of Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer and commentator who was arrested last year on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law that critics say chokes freedom of expression. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

300 activists rally in Bangladesh to denounce prison death

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Protesters shout slogans as they protest the death in prison of a writer who was arrested on charges of violating the sweeping digital security, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Mushtaq Ahmed, 53, was arrested in Dhaka in May last year for making comments on social media that criticized the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He had been denied bail at least six times. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladeshis protest prison death of commentator

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE-In this Jan. 5, 2021 file photo, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, father of 16-year-old Athar Mushtaq, who was fatally shot by Government forces grieves while talking to Associated Press in Bellow, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Police have booked the Kashmiri man seeking the body of his slain teenage son under India’s harsh anti-terror law, accusing him of organizing illegal processions under criminal conspiracy. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin, File)

Kashmir man seeking son’s body charged under anti-terror law

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Zarqa Mushtaq, center, shows on a mobile phone the 11th grade examination slip of her 16 -year old brother Athar Mushtaq, as her father Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, looks on while talking to the Associated Press in Bellow, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. On the last week of 2020, Indian government forces killed Athar and two other young men during a controversial gunfight on the outskirts of the Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city. Police did not call them anti-India militants but “hardcore associates of terrorists.&quot; They later buried them at a graveyard in a remote mountainous tourist resort miles away from their ancestral villages. Athar was the latest Kashmiri to be buried in a far-off graveyard after Indian authorities in a new controversial policy in 2020 started to consign blood-soaked bodies of scores of Kashmiri suspected rebels to unmarked graves, denying the mourning families a proper funeral and a burial. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

In Kashmir, empty grave for teenager killed by Indian forces

By SHAH ABBAS and SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press