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Date: 2000-01-02
Zensur in Bangladesh
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In Bangladesh wird von tollwütigen Behörden anscheinend
gerade der letzte Rest von Meinungsfreiheit aus Print- und
Netzmedien gemobbt.
postscrypt: In AT wird gerade eine Sektion von Reporter ohne
Grenzen aufgebaut. Es fehlt gerade noch ein Dutzend
Journalisten, um im Rahmen von RSF Länderstatus zu
erhalten.
Kontakt:
Martin Mair
mm@mediaweb.at
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31 December 1999
Newspaper raided, editor sought by police
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
(RSF/IFEX) - In a 31 December 1999 letter to Home Affairs
Minister Mohammed Nasim, RSF protested the ransacking of
the offices of "Weekly Evidence", published in Dhaka. RSF
also expressed its concern that police were looking for the
editor without a warrant for his arrest. The organisation asked
officials to identify and bring to trial those responsible for the
raid and drew the minister's attention to deteriorating working
conditions for Bangladeshi journalists, who are too often
victims of political violence.
RSF also protested the 26 December arrest by policemen of
the editor of the web magazine www.meghbarta.net, Anu
Muhammod. He was attending a conference in Chittagong
city.
According to information collected by RSF, on 30 November
a group of unknown attackers raided the offices of the
English-language "Weekly Evidence", destroying computers,
furniture and vehicles. It was the third time that the weekly
had been the target of an attack. On the same day, police
officers searched the home of the newspaper's managing
editor, who went into hiding. On 28 November, "Weekly
Evidence" was suspended by a judge at the Dhaka court
because of an error in the address of the editor which
appeared in the imprint. The weekly was authorised to
republish by the high court. According to the editor, Manzoor
Quader, who is also a leader of the opposition Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP), the newspaper has been a victim of
deliberate obstruction by some members of the government.
In May, the managing editor was arrested and released on
bail.
For further information, contact Vincent Brossel at RSF, 5,
rue Geoffroy Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84
84, fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail: asie@rsf.fr Internet:
Reporter ohne Grenzen
http://www.rsf.fr
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published on: 2000-01-02
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