Harassment (Bangladesh)
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17
May
2017
Journalists
The government of Bangladesh instructed all its missions abroad to monitor activities of all traveling Bangladeshi journalists. On May 17, Bangladesh’s foreign ministry directed all its missions to monitor the activities of the Bangladeshi journalists traveling abroad and find out whether they are involved in any anti-state activities. The ministry instructed all its missions to take the matter seriously. The instruction reportedly came in the wake of visit of some Bangladeshi journalists’ to Pakistan on invitation of Pakistan government.
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20
Feb
2016
Mahfuz Anam
At least three dozen cases, including six sedition pleas and a dozen defamation cases, were filed in the past weeks against The Daily Star editor and publisher Mahfuz Anam in 17 districts of Bangladesh by various individuals and political groups. The legal actions were launched after Anam admitted during a televised interview on February 3 to a lapse in editorial judgement in publishing reports based on information supplied by the country’s task force intelligence cell during the caretaker government regime almost a decade ago without being able to independently verify them. The military-backed interim government declared a state of emergency in 2007, detaining the leaders of the two biggest political parties and initiating cases against them.
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14
Mar
2014
Sajeda Sweety & Tauhid Shanta
Sajeda Sweety, a staff correspondent of online news portal banglanews24.com, and her husband Tauhid Shanta, a journalist with Asian Television, were beaten by two members of Bangladesh Ansar, a law enforcement and security force administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs as they were returning home on their motorbike.