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Navigating the 'mental prison' – Mubashar Hasan on higher education in Bangladesh (opens the original)
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Free to Think speaks with academic, policy analyst and human rights activist Mubashar Hasan. He describes how in Bangladesh certain research topics are off-limits, particularly those that threaten the power of the ruling class, and speaks from first-hand experience — Hasan survived 44 days of "enforced disappearance" in Bangladesh in 2017. Now based in Sydney, Australia, Hasan describes the 'mental prison' Bangladeshi colleagues navigate when trying to balance doing their work with the risks the
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