Newsdeck: Bangladesh blocks access to Al Jazeera news website By Al Jazeera
The article, which focused on the role of General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s security adviser and the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence , the country’s military intelligence agency, was published on Wednesday afternoon, Bangladesh time.Al Jazeera’s Investigation Unit.
In the past, Bangladesh security agencies blocked websites by sending an instruction to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission which then emailed all International Internet Gateways. And just before December elections, the government also closed 58 local news sites, many that supported opposition parties, after officials claimed that they published “fake and baseless news”.In an interview on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head programme, broadcast earlier this month, Gowher Rizvi, the foreign affairs advisor to the prime minister said, “Those who know the media in Bangladesh, know one thing. That it is free. It is vigorous.
“There are newspapers criticising Sheikh Hasina. In the parliament she is being criticised. So why wouldn’t Bangladesh have press freedom.”
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