The original post was about a witness, a Hindu witness, who refused to testify against the Islamist guy (saydee) government is after. His testimony was critical, Sayedee was charged with murdering his brother, but he kept refusing. You know how persuasive our govt can be- he even had to flee to India. But he never changed his position that in this particular case, Sayedee wasn't involved. It's an interesting post, but not enough to change the negative view an average Bangladeshi liberal have about Sayede.
What outraged us was what happened afterwards. The govt was a quite a bit tensed after Sayedee's death recently. There was lots of people coming out to praise this guy. Awami league had to sack hundreds of its own party members, particularly from its student wing, for their sympathetic posts. Rahman was unfortunate in that his post became perhaps the most viral one among so many.
Many members of the ruling party have been pretty open about the fact that they needed to make an example of out of him. Particularly egregious is the timing of her arrest, and the lazy excuse they came up with- this 60 yr old flail woman was a islamic terrorist planning to overthrow the government. It's a charge we've heard so many times over the years- the exactly same words.
Actually it's a genius charge. They know it's going to silence lots of potential western criticism by tying it to Islamic terrorism. And by being so transparently bogus to us, it sends the message govt intended to send all along- shut up or you'll be next.