The Dhaka office of Bangladesh’s Amar Desh newspaper was stormed by police on Wednesday, just hours after Dhaka’s deputy commissioner, Muhibul Haque, ordered its publishing license suspended. Police also arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on fraud charges, according to local and international news reports. The move comes only a month after the Bangladeshi government banned […]

An IPI press freedom advocacy mission will visit Bangladesh from 2-6 December 2009, to meet with representatives from a broad range of media as well as top government officials and members of civil society. The mission will follow up on some of the issues discussed in the December 2008 IPI press freedom mission and assess […]

Bangladeshi journalist F.M. Masum, a staff correspondent of the daily New Age in Bangladesh, was on Thursday (22 Oct.) taken from his residence by members of the country’s infamous Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and was then held incommunicado, and brutally tortured, for over ten hours, before being released. Masum, who had injury marks all over […]

The International Press Institute welcomes the enactment on 1 July of Bangladesh’s long-awaited Right to Information Act (2009), and the appointment, under Article 15(1) of the Act, of a three-member Information Commission, as an important step towards acknowledgement of the people’s right to access information.. IPI is concerned, however, that the regime of exceptions to […]