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Mohammad Ali, president and general secretary of CUJ, one of the main organizations working in Chittagong. In a statement on Friday, Shamsul Islam described the incident as “naked interference” in media freedom.
In a statement, CUJ leaders said: “If there is an error in the news published and broadcast in the media, there is a process to correct it. But the threat to send one lawyer notice after another and file a case to remove various reports posted to bdnews24 from the portal at different times is completely undesirable and unacceptable in any way.
The statement called on stakeholders to refrain from applying such ‘unethical pressure’, saying “otherwise, media workers in the country will oppose such malpractices for the sake of their own existence.”
I won’t give in to pressure: bdnews24.com editor-in-chief
Attempt to silence the media: statement by bdnews24.com
Tawfiq Imroz Khalidi, editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com, told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.
At the press conference it was reported that the President of the Premier Group of Companies, former MP Bir Muktijoddha Dr. Like all other media outlets, bdnews24.com has reported on the activities of HBM Iqbal on various occasions over the last decade and a half. , their activities and court orders.
They have also been exempted from those cases. Now, after all this time, bdnews24.com is being pressured to remove that old news.
More than three dozen attorney notices have already been sent from different districts across the country to the four senior editors of bdnews24.com. It is said that if those reports are not ‘deleted’, a case will be shelved. The lawsuit will be filed under the Digital Security Act and defamation charges.
Convinced not to give in to the pressure, Tawfiq Imroz Khalidi said: “bdnews24.com has no investigation of its own in these reports; the proceedings of the case and the court order have been objectively reflected there. So why a media outlet would you delete these reports? “
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