Obstruction of female Baul singers in Sunamganj, police prevent protest program in Dhaka

Cultural activists faced police obstruction while trying to form a human chain in Dhaka's Dhanmondi to protest the obstruction of female Baul artists from singing in Sunamganj. On Monday afternoon, alongside the disruption of the program, Dipak Shill, former president of Bangladesh Student Union, was detained by the police; he was later released around 9 PM.

According to the police version, he was detained at one stage of an altercation over provocative slogans. Cultural activists protested this incident and condemned the attack on Baul and Bengali culture. They alleged that the tendency to obstruct cultural events and freedom of expression is shrinking the cultural sphere of the country.