Press freedom under threat, says NOAB
The Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh on Monday expressed deep concern over recent sit-ins and vandalism outside the offices of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo in Karwan Bazar of Dhaka...
The Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh on Monday expressed deep concern over recent sit-ins and vandalism outside the offices of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo in Karwan Bazar of Dhaka...
THE untoward incident of chaos and anarchy in front of the office of the daily Prothom Alo is deeply concerning. As reported in ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· on November 24, a group of individuals, some of them identifying themselves as ‘anti-India protesters,’ staged a sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office and also tried to block the surrounding roads...
A group of people on Monday attacked the Prothom Alo office in Rajshahi city and vandalised and set fire to its signboard...
At least 10 protesters were injured when police baton-charged to disperse a group of people staging sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office at Karwan Bazar, blaming Pothom Alo and The Daily Star ‘for plying role as agents of India’...