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Bangladesh's press freedom ranking was primarily declined due to several other issues such as "violence by political activists", arbitrary blocking of news publishers, self-censorship, restricting some news media from attending government press conferences, arbitrary arrest and detention, physical attacks carried out against journalists by ...
The mass media in Bangladesh refers to the print, broadcast and online mass media available in Bangladesh.The Constitution guarantees press freedom and freedom of expression within "reasonable restriction", [1] though some media outlets have been harassed, such as the daily Amar Desh newspaper [2] and Diganta Television [3] [4] The Bangladeshi media's rank has dropped to 146 [5] in 2018 from ...
The government of Bangladesh increased suppression of the press following the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. After Netra news, based in Sweden, claiming two million would die in the pandemic in Bangladesh, government intelligence agents visited the mother of its editor, Tasneem Khalil, in Sylhet.
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means (e.g. schools) in the modern era.
Netra News is run by a grant provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, [8] [9] a non-governmental and non-profit organization funded by the U.S. government.. It is a project under Bangladesh Media Network, which is overseen by a board comprising Kerstin Brunnberg (president), a prominent Swedish journalist, Bangladeshi-Australian academic Bina D’Costa (secretary), and Dan Morrison ...
In 2009, a New Age reporter was tortured by the law enforcement agency Rapid Action Battalion members. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2013, editor Nurul Kabir allegedly received a phone call from a person claiming to be a criminal nicknamed "Shahadat," who threatened him, his wife and children, demanded Tk100,000, and ordered him to "speak carefully ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) is the news agency of Bangladesh. BSS was established on 1 January 1972 by the Government of Bangladesh soon after the Bangladesh Liberation War . [ 1 ] Mahbub Morshed is the current managing director and chief editor of the agency.
Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh announced on 25 March 2020 that newspapers do not spread COVID-19. [11] [12] The association sought a government stimulus package following the coronavirus caused lock down in Bangladesh. [13] The former President of Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh is Matiur Rahman, editor of the daily ...