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Dhaka-based Bangladeshi citizen Pinaki Bhattacharya is a trained medical doctor. Born in 1967, he is the eldest son of Shyamal Bhattacharya, a cultural personality and former eminent teacher of Bogra District School. While Pinaki does not happen to practise medicine now, he runs a pharmaceutical business. However, he is more well-known in Bangladesh as an author, blogger, and social activist. He is also an adjunct faculty member at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). He teaches environmental toxicology there.

Education
Pinaki Bhattacharya completed MBBS in Medicine at the Rajshahi Medical College respectively from 1985 to 1990. Afterward, Pinaki does not happen to practice medicine now, he runs a pharmaceutical business. Now, Pinaki is pursuing higher studies at Sorbonne University.

Career
Pinaki Bhattacharya is an adjunct faculty at the American International University-Bangladesh [AIUB]. There he taught Environmental Toxicology.

Online Activist
Pinaki has long used Facebook, Twitter, and his blogs to criticize the current regime of Sheikh Hasina for its alleged corruption and human rights violations, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. His posts and tweets are often critical of the government in Bangladesh and the ruling party of Awami League.

Anti-drug war campaign
Anti-narcotics operations were launched in Bangladesh in the 2018. The suspects were extrajudicially killed in these operations. Pinaki sharply criticized extrajudicial killings. Pinaki was equally vocal on Facebook and Twitter recently demanding quota reform movement called for university students and safe road movement of school students.

In his Facebook and Twitter, He received many online death threats.

Threats and legal issues
Military intelligence officials called up Pinaki and asked him to come down to their headquarters in Dhaka. The officials did not explain why they wanted to meet him. There are instances in which Some even disappeared after they met the intelligence officials.

Pinaki did not go to meet the military intelligence officials that day and went into hiding. The intelligence officials raided the residence and office of Pinaki in Dhaka several times, apparently looking for him. They even placed his residence under round-the-clock surveillance. While he was in hiding in Bangladesh, the authorities placed a ban on his departure from the country. However, with the help of some friends, Pinaki managed to sneak out of the country and reached Bangkok in January 2019.

Politics
In his early days, Pinaki was involved in Leftist student movement. He has authored 17 books on Bangladesh’s political history and other topics. Now, he is a popular online activist. His Facebook profile is followed by over 200,000 people. He is also active on Twitter. His online write-ups on Bangladesh’s political history, society, current politics, persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar and other related human rights-related issues in Bangladesh and neighboring countries are popular among students, fellow activists and others.

Books
He has written 17 books.