This morning, Hasnat Abdullah commented on a Facebook post published by the Online Editors Alliance. In reply to a comment under the post, he wrote:
"Will they beat me? Disappear me? Let them. What's the point of surviving a hundred years in slavery? They are a nation of slaves. I wasn't born to live in servitude."
Previously, some of his remarks about the media had sparked discussion, and this comment adds to that ongoing context.