Desk Report: Protesters have burned an effigy of Home Affairs Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury in protest against the incident of two young women being sexually assaulted for smoking in public in Lalmatia. Effigy burned in protest of Home Two young women were sexually assaulted at a tea shop in Lalmatia, Dhaka, on Saturday. When reporters asked him about the incident the next day, he said, “As far as I know, they (the two young women) were smoking cigarettes, and some people were passing by to offer prayers. When they stopped…
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