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Bangladesh holds massive protest against French cartoons

by Julhas Alam
| October 27, 2020 3:12 AM

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Around 10,000 people in Bangladesh rallied in the South Asian nation's capital on Tuesday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad as protected under freedom of speech.

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