Over 20 representatives of Bangladesh’s print and broadcast media have met in the country’s capital, Dhaka, to discuss threats and challenges facing the media in Bangladesh, and possible solutions. The meeting, held on 10 January 2011 at the Jatri auditorium, at Karwan Bazaar, Dhaka, was organized by the IPI Bangladesh National Committee as part of […]

Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, a celebrated Bangladeshi journalist, has made it to the jury panel that will pick the winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize from 2011 to 2013. In selecting Bulbul for the jury, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova mentioned Bulbul’s “profound attachment to the principle of press freedom and the considerable […]

The acting editor of a politically-affiliated Bangladesh newspaper has been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of one Lakh (approx. €1,120) for contempt of court. Mahmudur Rahman has been in pre-trial detention since 1 June as a result of a slew of charges brought against him in connection with his publication’s work. […]

The International Press Institute is deeply concerned by reports that acting editor of suspended Bangladeshi newspaper Amar Desh, Mahmudur Rahman, may have been tortured in police custody. “Your honour, please save my life,” the editor was quoted by local media as telling the court. “I am not supposed to be alive after the level of […]