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Ershad Halim (Photo courtesy of the University of Dhaka)

Gay teacher at Dhaka University pleads innocent after arrest on sex harassment charges


He also claimed that, as the teacher was due to be considered for the position of department chair in a few months, other teachers had conspired to frame him.
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The lawyer also mentioned that professor Halim has a wife and a child studying in Class VIII, questioning why he would engage in such acts.
JMBF decries an Islamist anti-gay conspiracy
JMBF demanded Ershad’s immediate and unconditional release and the withdrawal of the case filed against him
“JMBF firmly believes that provoking a group of pro-Islamist students to make false, baseless, and conspiratorial allegations against a teacher simply because he belongs to the gay sexual minority community, and subsequently arresting and jailing him, constitutes a clear violation of the Constitution of Bangladesh, secularism, civil rights, and the fundamental human rights declared by the United Nations,” the organizatiou stated.

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