Tithy Sarker, a third-year zoology student involved with multiple civil rights groups on campus, was suspended and then arrested for Facebook posts that were judged to be blasphemous.
being an officer in multiple civil rights organizations on campus
Shiplu Mallik (husband), Smriti Rani Sarker (sister), Tushar Sarker (cousin)
Tithy Sarker, a student at Jagannath University in Bangladesh, allegedly made a blasphemous post to Facebook insulting the Prophet Muhammad in October 2020. The exact content of the post is not known. Tithy claimed in a complaint she filed with police that her Facebook account had been hacked, but the post nonetheless triggered protests from angry students demanding her expulsion. She apparently left town in the wake of these protests.
A couple of weeks later, Tithy was found, arrested, and soon jailed.
In May 2024, after nearly four years of waiting, Tithy was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. As part of the verdict that was handed down and because of her lawyer's request, however, she was also granted a year of probation.
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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.