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                Date: 2000-01-02
                 
                 
                Zensur in Bangladesh
                
                 
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      In Bangladesh wird von tollwütigen Behörden anscheinend  
gerade der letzte Rest von Meinungsfreiheit aus Print- und  
Netzmedien gemobbt. 
 
postscrypt: In AT wird gerade eine Sektion von Reporter ohne  
Grenzen aufgebaut. Es fehlt gerade noch ein Dutzend  
Journalisten, um im Rahmen von RSF Länderstatus zu  
erhalten.  
Kontakt: 
Martin Mair 
mm@mediaweb.at 
 
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31 December 1999 
 
Newspaper raided, editor sought by police 
 
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris 
 
(RSF/IFEX) - In a 31 December 1999 letter to Home Affairs  
Minister Mohammed Nasim, RSF protested the ransacking of  
the offices of "Weekly Evidence", published in Dhaka. RSF  
also expressed its concern that police were looking for the  
editor without a warrant for his arrest. The organisation asked  
officials to identify and bring to trial those responsible for the  
raid and drew the minister's attention to deteriorating working  
conditions for Bangladeshi journalists, who are too often  
victims of political violence. 
 
RSF also protested the 26 December arrest by policemen of  
the editor of the web magazine www.meghbarta.net, Anu  
Muhammod. He was attending a conference in Chittagong  
city. 
 
According to information collected by RSF, on 30 November  
a group of unknown attackers raided the offices of the  
English-language "Weekly Evidence", destroying computers,  
furniture and vehicles. It was the third time that the weekly  
had been the target of an attack. On the same day, police  
officers searched the home of the newspaper's managing  
editor, who went into hiding. On 28 November, "Weekly  
Evidence" was suspended by a judge at the Dhaka court  
because of an error in the address of the editor which  
appeared in the imprint. The weekly was authorised to  
republish by the high court. According to the editor, Manzoor  
Quader, who is also a leader of the opposition Bangladesh  
Nationalist Party (BNP), the newspaper has been a victim of  
deliberate obstruction by some members of the government.  
In May, the managing editor was arrested and released on  
bail. 
 
For further information, contact Vincent Brossel at RSF, 5,  
rue Geoffroy Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel: +33 1 44 83 84  
84, fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail: asie@rsf.fr Internet:  
 
Reporter ohne Grenzen 
http://www.rsf.fr
                   
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 2000-01-02 
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