Cyrus Naji

Cyrus Naji was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. From 2022 to 2023, he was a teaching fellow at the Asian University for Women, a private university in Chittagong.

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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

Bangladesh police detain a protester at the University of Dhaka in July 2024. Two recent reports from the United Nations and Human Rights Watch find Sheikh Hasina and her lieutenants’ crackdown on the student-led revolt possibly amounted to crimes against humanity – but also paint an unflattering picture of the interim government’s failure to stop abusive practices.

New reports caution Bangladesh against “replicating poor practices” of the Sheikh Hasina regime

20 Feb 2025

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