Dhaka, July 27 -- 'Jatiyatabadi Writers' Forum' on Sunday laid a siege to Bangla Academy on Sunday morning to press home their five-point demand, including the withdrawal of the poetry collection titled 'July Ganoubhyutthaner Kobita (Poems of the July Uprising).'

Around 20 members of the forum gathered in front of the Academy's main gate at 11am, alleging that the institution has become a den for 'fascist elements'.

They claimed that the recently published collection contains about 27 poems by writers aligned with authoritarian ideologies (fascist).

The protesters demanded that the two editors of the edition apologise to the nation for their incompetence, failure and for making indecent statements on Facebook and also called for the wi...