Bangladesh - Prime Minister wages personal war against outspoken newspaper

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop hounding Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam over his admission on 4 February that, like many of the country's newspapers and TV stations, he published information in 2007 that seemed to implicate Hasina in corruption although it could not be verified independently. The information was provided to him and to Bangladesh's other media outlets by the military, who were in power in Bangladesh from 2007 to 2009. In a 22 (...)

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