Cyrus Naji

Cyrus Naji is a freelance journalist who has spent much of the last three years in Bangladesh.

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Police stand in front of the torched offices of the newspaper Prothom Alo in Dhaka. The violence after Osman Hadi’s killing reveals both leadership failures and a growing climate of fear that is silencing progressives and minorities ahead of Bangladesh’s upcoming elections.

The Muhammad Yunus government played with fire, now Bangladesh burns again

24 Dec 2025

An April 2025 protest in Dhaka demanding the arrest and trial of alleged perpetrators of enforced disappearances and extra judicial killings during the Sheikh Hasina regime. Bangladesh’s interim government has chosen to pursue accountability through the country’s International Crimes Tribunal, but there are internal weaknesses and problems with the law governing the ICT.

Bangladesh’s flawed attempt at transitional justice after Sheikh Hasina

26 May 2025

A 2023 demonstration in Dhaka for the release of Shamsuzzaman Shams, a Prothom Alo reporter arrested for an article on rising food prices. The Media Reform Commission created by Bangladesh’s interim government has set out to fix the problems hobbling journalistic freedom, but the tools of repression from the Sheikh Hasina era are still very much intact.

The future of Bangladesh’s fragile media freedom

08 Apr 2025

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