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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Faces Capital Trial, Members of Congress Respond

February 28, 2006

After two years of continuances and delays, Honorary Member and 2005 Freedom to Write Award-Winner, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, faces his sedition trial this month.  The charge of sedition carries a punishment of 30 years in prison to a possible death sentence.  The Congressional Bangladesh Caucus have formally protested these proceedings.  Please click here for further information, to learn how you can write a letter of appeal on behalf of this writer, and to see a copy of the Congressmen’s letter to the Bangladeshi Ambassador.

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