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 […]

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 […]