David Bergman's report for Al Jazeera on the 28 March 2016 High Court dismissal of the 1988 challenge to Article 2A is contemporary journalism, filed the same week the ruling was handed down, confirmed against independent reporting on the same dismissal. Its strength is that it carries a direct, on the record quote from Subrata Chowdhury, counsel for the petitioners' side, and it names the standing ground on which the court actually dismissed the case rather than characterising it more broadly than the ruling did. Its limit is the ordinary one for same-week reporting on a court decision: it reports the outcome and its immediate reception rather than the fuller legal reasoning a case note would carry.
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AuthorDavid Bergman
PublisherAl Jazeera
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/3/28/bangladesh-court-upholds-islam-as-religion-of-the-state
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NotesReports the High Court's 28 March 2016 dismissal, for want of standing, of the 1988 writ petition against Article 2A (Islam as the state religion). Carries a direct, on the record quote from Subrata Chowdhury, counsel for the Committee against Autocracy and Communalism, on the dismissal.
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