Bangladesh - Prime minister accuses newspaper of inciting terrorism

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina violated the media's right to inform when she accused the English-language Daily Star newspaper of supporting the banned radical Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir by publishing a report about its recent poster campaign, Reporters Without Borders said today. Headlined “Fanatics raise their ugly head again,” the Daily Star article of 11 February included a photo taken in the Dhaka district of Banglamotor of one of the posters, which called for a revolt within the (...)

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