An international human rights group denounced Thursday the arrest of a Bangladeshi labor activist for allegedly encouraging textile workers to hold illegal protests.
Human Rights Watch said last week's arrest of Mehedi Hasan, a field investigator for the Washington, D.C.-based Worker Rights Consortium, was an abuse of emergency powers to target those trying to protect workers rights in the country's most important export industry.
Police have accused Hasan of instigating garment workers' protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to demand unpaid wages and better working conditions.
"This should set off alarm bells among donors and …
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