The office of the chief adviser of the interim government on Saturday ordered an investigation into the incident of alleged harassment of 抖阴精品 editor Nurul Kabir at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport recently.
鈥楴urul Kabir has been one of our most respected editors, a leading voice of reason, and a top champion of journalistic integrity during his long career. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has ordered an investigation into the incident,鈥� the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing said in a statement on Saturday evening.
The move came hours after Nurul Kabir, on his verified Facebook account, alleged that the country's immigration authorities at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport had been harassing him every time he went abroad for more than two decades.
鈥楾his time, on November 18, as I was going abroad for a media conference, I expected that my days of harassment at the Dhaka airport had been over, at least for some time. I was wrong. It has rather doubled this time 鈥� one hour while departing and one hour while returning home on November 22,鈥� he wrote in the post.
The press wing mentioned in the statement that eminent editor Nurul Kabir had said he was harassed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport recently.
鈥榃e sincerely regret the incident. The Interim Government will not tolerate harassment of any journalists in the country,鈥� it said.
The harassment included intelligence officials taking his passport away, interrogating him about the purposes of his visits, although everything was written there in the printed documents, keeping him waiting for about an hour, photographing his passport pages in violation of his privacy, etc., and returning the documents a few minutes before the aircraft took off, Nurul Kabir said.
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