London, UK. 10th August 2018. Two young protesters with posters 'Free My Nana' (Grandad) outside the Bangladesh High Commission in London. Campaigners including a number of his relatives and several well-known photographers, called for the immediate release of Shahidul Alam, seized from his house by police on Sunday shortly after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera over Skype on the road safety protests in Bangladesh. Arrested for making comments which criticised the government, he was badly beaten before appearing in court, where a judge ordered him to be taken to hospital, but he was taken ba
London, UK. 10th August 2018. Two young protesters with posters 'Free My Nana' (Grandad) outside the Bangladesh High Commission in London. Campaigners including a number of his relatives and several well-known photographers, called for the immediate release of Shahidul Alam, seized from his house by police on Sunday shortly after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera over Skype on the road safety protests in Bangladesh. Arrested for making comments which criticised the government, he was badly beaten before appearing in court, where a judge ordered him to be taken to hospital, but he was taken back into custody after the hospital visit. After a number of speeches, readings and songs from family and friends the vigil ended with a petition being read which was to be taken to the High Commission. Alam studied and taught in London before returning to Bangladesh where he became the area's leading photographer, founding Drik and Majority Word agencies and the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka, one of the world's leading schools of photojournalism. His 2010 photo exhibition Crossfire, showing the locations of extra-judicial killings by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion death squads, was closed down by police as was an earlier show on Tibet. This June he was selected by the US based Lucie Foundation as the 2018 recipient of their distinguished Humanitarian Award. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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