Choudhury beaten by mob led by ruling party officials; Most content apparently removed from Weekly Blitz site

According to an article by Michael Freund in the Jerusalem Post, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz newspaper, an English-language publication based in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, was beaten by a mob led by leading officials of Bangladesh's ruling party on October 5. Choudhury is scheduled to go on trial for sedition beginning this Thursday for advocating Bangladeshi