BNP today said that it will scrap all “repressive acts and ordinances including Digital Security Act” if it comes to power.

With the numerous laws that already exist to regulate—or better still, suppress—the media, and the diligence with which new ones are being prepared, one would think that of all the areas that need fixing, our government expects the journalists to be “fixed” first. But why?

Journalism in Bangladesh is under siege on the digital front, beginning from surveillance to draconian laws.

Bangladesh is a nation that is being carried almost entirely by the labour of its underprivileged and uneducated people, who slave away at garment factories and toil abroad to send back remittances.

There is no scope for repealing the sanctions against Rab, without concrete actions and accountability, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas said today.

The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.