National Human Rights Commission chairman has slammed the Editors’ Council and a group of citizens for their demand to withdraw cases against The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam.
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25 AL-men unopposed, no Bnp chairman candidate in 71 UPs
A total of 3,568 chairman aspirants, including 738 of ruling Awami League and 668 of BNP, have filed their nomination papers in 738 Union Parishads (UPs) to contest the first phase of election slated for 22 March. According to statistics…
Criminal charges against editors are attempt to intimidate all media: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based global rights body, has said Bangladeshi authorities should immediately withdraw all criminal charges filed against the editors of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, the country’s leading newspapers.
Ethnic minorities want to study in their own languages
People of Chakma and other minorities have lamented the loss of their native language while paying tributes to the Bangla language martyrs at Central Shaheed Minar.
Charging editors – Repeal abusive laws: HRW
New York – Bangladeshi authorities should immediately withdraw all criminal charges filed against the editors of the Daily Star and Prothom Alo, the country’s leading newspapers, Human Rights Watch said today. Bangladesh should repeal its criminal defamation and sedition laws,…
Indian news organization Firstpost on cases against DS editor
Indian news organisation Firstpost on Friday said prime minister’s ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s remarks on his Facebook page opened the “floodgates for Awami League supporters to file defamation cases against The Daily Star editor to prove their loyalty to…
Attempt to crush independent media in Bangladesh: BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation, UK-based media giant popularly known as BBC, on Thursday said the world should be worried by the “concerted attacks” on one of the leading newspaper editors in South Asia, Mahfuz Anam of Bangladesh’s Daily Star. As…
Apple rejects ‘unprecedented’ order to help FBI
Apple computers is resisting a U.S. government order to unlock its encrypted iPhone software to help the FBI examine a phone used by the militants who killed 14 people in a terrorist-style attack in California in December. Apple’s chief executive…
Arrest warrant issued against Daily Star editor
A Narayanganj court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against English-language newspaper The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in a defamation suit. Senior judicial magistrate Saiduzzaman Sharif passed the order after taking the case into cognisance. Public prosecutor Wazed Ali…
Khaleda complains of media intimidation
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday said showing Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman arrested despite his bail granted by the High Court is tantamount to contempt of court. Voicing deep concerns over keeping the editor “in…
Another 17 cases filed against Mahfuz Anam
Seventeen more cases were filed against the Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in 17 districts across the country on Monday, bringing the number of cases against him to 35. The cases – either defamation or sedition – were filed for…
Studying under fire in Ukraine – HRW
Berlin – Hostilities in eastern Ukraine have damaged or destroyed hundreds of schools, many of which were used by parties to the conflict for military purposes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 65-page report, “Studying Under…
Sedition charge against Newspaper editor
Dhaka–A sedition complaint has been filed against Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of English daily The Daily Star, for publishing corruption reports against Awami League president Sheikh Hasina,supplied by DGFI, without any verification.
MPs demand trial of a newspaper editor, publisher
Dhaka – The Jatiya Sangsad Sunday demanded trial of The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam and its Publisher Latifur Rahman for publishing misleading and fabricated news against Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and inviting an unconstitutional government during the 1/11…
Tunisia: Widespread abuses under drug law
,(Tunis) – A draft law to reduce penalties for drug use would stop short of fixing major human rights concerns in the current law. Tunisian authorities should revise the law to eliminate all prison sentences for recreational drug use or…
Nobody will be spared involved in Wednesday night’s incident: HM
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said no one will be spared involved in Wednesday night’s incident in Godaraghat of Mirpur area where a tea seller caught fire from his kerosene stove.
Julian Assange ‘will surrender’ if UN rules against him
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will turn himself over to UK police on Friday if a UN panel rules he has not been unlawfully detained.He took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in west London in June 2012 to…
As Myanmar enters a new era, Washington and Beijing vie for influence
By Nile Bowie Myanmar is a country rapidly moving toward uncharted political terrain. By March 2016, the National League for Democracy (NLD) will take power for the first time in history, bringing an end to five decades of rule by…
The Suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula: Caste instigated political murder
By Samar “I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. At last, this is the only letter I am getting to write.” Rohith Vemula, a young Dalit research scholar and student activist of the…
Dispossessed in the name of ‘security’
Robert J. Burrowes A new book, edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, both involved with The Transnational Institute, brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping…
Critics shuts down, bloggers hiding; clampdown on opposition- HRW
The New-York Based Human Rights Wach has depicted a grim picture about Bangladesh. In its annual report 2016, HRW has said, the rights to freedom of speech and assembly are coming under sustained attack by Bangladesh’s increasingly authoritarian government. Bloggers…
Saudi mass execution largest since 1980
Beirut – Saudi authorities carried out the largest mass execution in the country since 1980, putting 47 men to death on January 2, 2016. According to the Saudi state news agency, all of the men were convicted on terrorism charges,…
US Congress should act on gun violence
Antonio Ginatta The steps announced today by United States President Barack Obama to reduce gun violence are a welcome and necessary departure from years of inaction –a recognition that the US can and should act to protect citizens from gun-related…
Promote disabled peoples’ accessibility, people urged
A “National Dialogue onPromotion of Disabled Peoples’ Accessibility 2015” was held at VIP Lounge (1st Floor) of Bangladesh National Press Club, Dhaka on 30 December 2015, organized by Bangladesh Protbandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS) in cooperation with Bread for the World,…
Policy to regulate online TV media on election day proposed
At a law and order meeting convened by the Election Commission, several participants have proposed formulating a policy to regulate media reports related to the polls on election day. Election commissioners, officials from the home ministry, police, Border Guard Bangladesh…
‘They used to beat me with sticks’: Maid agaist cricketer Shahadat
By Sugam Pokharel, CNN Dhaka (CNN) She’s known as “Happy” but when Mahfuza Akhter was found bruised and crying in the streets of Dhaka she was anything but. The 11-year-old former live-in maid of one of Bangladesh’s cricketing heroes is…
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact on Human Rights Day
December 10– This Human Rights Day, AIPP joins the global yearlong campaign “Our Rights. Our Freedom. Always.” for the 50th anniversary of the two International Covenants on Human Rights: the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and…
Human rights have gone below zero in Bangladesh: Khaleda
Human rights in Bangladesh have ‘sunk below zero’, Khaleda Zia has said, expressing her concern. The BNP chairperson urged everyone to unite to ‘restore’ democracy and take the nation out of the current situation. She made this appeal on Wednesday…
CIA torture is unfinished business
It is now widely acknowledged that after the 9/11 attacks in the US, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began a global detention and interrogation program through which it tortured and abused prisoners. Yet the US government has failed to hold…
New emergency powers threaten rights in France
Parliament Should Ensure New Powers Not Misused Paris – France should apply broad new powers granted under an expanded state of emergency law in as narrow and limited manner as possible to avoid trampling on human rights, Human Rights Watch…