Then he also joined the Bangladesh Navy as an officer cadet, promoted to midshipman and withdrawn from academy for protesting corporal punishment four days before passing out parade.
[9] During March and April 2020, Kishore drew several cartoons criticizing and satirizing the Bangladesh Government's handling of COVID-19 pandemic and posted it in his Facebook timeline with the title "Life in the Time of Corona".
[12] Kishore and his elder friend writer Mushtaq Ahmed were arrested in May, 2020 in Dhaka under the Digital Security Act by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) unit-3.
[13][14] Kishore, along with 10 others has been accused of "spreading rumours about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the War of Independence of Bangladesh and the coronavirus pandemic, and using slander, confusion and discord in order to create chaos" under section 21/25 (1) (kha) 31/35 of the Digital Security Act of 2018.
[8] The law enforcement agency claims they were detained on May 5 from Kakrail but Kishore alleged that he was picked up by 16-17 police in plainclothes on May 2, 2020, from his Shantinagar residence.
[15] Among other accused were Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, an activist of a platform called 'Rastrachinta' and Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil, editor of Netra News.
[16][17] According to police complaints, Kishore and other journalists are alleged to tarnish the image of the country by running a popular Facebook page "I am Bangladeshi".
Kishore showed the oozing ear canal and scars on his leg to the journalists of The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Prothom Alo.
Nine international organizations: AFAD, FORUM-ASIA, AHRC, ANFREL, CIVICUS, Eleos Justice - Monash University, FIDH, OMCT and Robert F Kennedy Human Rights in a joint statement called for investigations of the allegation of torture on Kishore.
[22][23][24] Kishore and Mushtaq were denied bail 6 times by the lower court of Bangladesh during the 10 months period they were detained under the Digital Security Act.