Mohshin Habib, a Bangladeshi author, columnist and and journalist, works as Executive Editor at The Daily Asian Age, a Bangladeshi English newspaper. He holds a master's degree in Islamic History from Jagannath University, Dhaka. He has penned two novels, published in 2013 and 2017, based on minority harassment that has been going on in the Muslim-majority, and he is also the officially recognized Bengali translator of Harry Potter.
Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
