Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 02 Mar 2021 07:10 PM BdST
Updated: 02 Mar 2021 07:10 PM BdST
Reporters Against Corruption or RAC has condemned the pressure on bdnews24.com to remove old reports as “interference in the freedom of press”. );
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The group of journalists covering news about Anti-Corruption Commission in a statement on Tuesday alleged a number of members of the organisation are facing harassment for writing reports against corruption.
“Harassing reporters is nothing but a new strategy to hide corruption,” RAC President Mohiuddin Ahmed and General Secretary Ahmed Foyez said in the statement.
The RAC leaders urged everyone to refrain from such “condemnable” practices.
They assert that the report is “baseless” even though it is fundamentally based on the first notice sent by them and their statements.
In one of the new notices from Faridpur, in addition to threatening bdnews24.com with legal action for publishing any false or baseless news after this , the lawyer also warns of “adverse consequences” for the news publisher.
bdnews24.com opened the process to answer the legal notices after receiving those, beginning with a reply to the one sent by Babul through Jewel.
The second notice dated Feb 18 reached the bdnews24.com office from the Barishal lawyer on Wednesday.
Gazipur Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Gazipur Press Club has condemned as “unethical” the pressure on bdnews24.com to remove old reports. );
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The journalists protested against and expressed concern over such action by influential people in a meeting at the club’s auditorium on Thursday.
bdnews24.com had published reports on court proceedings and orders in cases filed against former MP HBM Iqbal, a freedom fighter and chairman of Premier Group, and members of his family in the past one and a half decades as had other mainstream media outlets.
bdnews24.com, Bangladesh s first internet newspaper, also covered the news of acquittal of Iqbal and his family members of the charges.
Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 25 Feb 2021 04:29 PM BdST
Updated: 25 Feb 2021 05:17 PM BdST
The journalist association of Titumir College has urged the government to take “proper steps” against those who put “unethical” pressure on bdnews24.com through dozens of legal notices demanding the removal of old reports. );
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In a statement on Thursday, Shamim Hossain Shishir, the president of the association, and Sabbir Ahmed, general secretary, said the act of putting pressure on media houses, such as bdnews24.com, is ‘worrying’.
Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com, spoke extensively on Feb 17 on “bizarre” attempts to muffle journalism by the influential people.
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