Another day, another attack on the press in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, this latest attack was brutal and the target was a journalist working far away from Dhaka, the capital, which meant he had little or no protection and institutional support for doing the most difficult job of holding the powerful accountable. The horrific death Golam Rabbani Nadim met with last week in Jamalpur’s Bakshiganj upazila was the  result of merciless beating by some musclemen allegedly on the orders of the local union parishad chairman Mahmudul Alam.  Nadim was attacked the very day he learnt that a court had exonerated him from defamation charges brought under the most dreaded Digital Security Act (DSA) by chairman Mahmudul Alam for publishing a story about the latter’s alleged bigamy. In many conservative societies,  bigamy is considered a crime - or at the least moral degradation. UP chairmen are entrusted with the responsibility of issuing character certificates to residents within their ...