A Hindu security guard, Jibon Krishna Roy made blasphemous posts on Facebook and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Jibon Krishna Roy, a Bangladeshi Hindu security guard, was convicted in September 2020 for using social media to post “obscene, derogatory and objectionable comments on [the] Prophet Mohammed.”
He received seven years in prison, as his actions fell under laws against the incitement of religious tensions.
Hindu jailed 7 years in Bangladesh for insulting Prophet Mohammed - Free Malaysia Today
Blasphemy law in Bangladesh allows the state to arrest, trial and imprison any person who has intention of hurting "religious sentiments." While the state does not have any law against apostasy, vigilantism or non-state groups prosecute apostates on their own. Vigilante violence has been an especially acute issue, most notably in the mid-2010s when a string of secularist and atheist bloggers suffered murder and attempted murder at the hands of Islamist extremists.
