The Daily IIJ

When President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took the oath office on January 16, 2006, she vowed that her administration would uphold the doctrine of Freedom of the Press and Free Expression to the letter, which several of her predecessors abused in total disregard for the constitution- the organic law of the land.

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Over five hundred people belonging to various civil society organizations yesterday took to the streets of Accra to mount pressure on the government to expedite action on the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill.

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Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, is a world famous and prominent journalist who is the executive editor of the oldest Bengali newspaper of Bangladesh the daily Sangbad. Recently he was told that without investigative journalism no one could exist in the field of journalism. I would like to agree with his valuable speech. But, I would like to ask him regarding an investigative journalism and the problem of Bangladesh.

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After several months of dilly-dallying, Zimbabwe’s inclusive government in December 2009 finally formed a media commission – nothing else could suffice for a pleasant early Christmas present for the country’s bruised media fraternity.

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Press freedom in Bangladesh is again under threat after some reports on corruption were recently published. A national daily supported by an opposition party is facing the heat from the ruling party for publishing a corruption report while another progressive national daily is facing a defamation suit filed by the main opposition party for publishing a crime report.

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If you want to continue your investigative journalism impartially or truly (with due respect professionally) on state killing-torture or human rights violation from Bangladesh then you would be victimized illegally. This is a great true for Bangladesh and I myself it’s an example.

I was made several investigated report of extra judicial killings, minority oppression, corruption and Islamic militancy for TV news channel, Radio and for newspaper which has published. By my professional activities I was obtained some enemy from a few influential political leaders and administrative officials who were affected by my reporting. And they were taken revenged against me during the emergency in 2007-2008.

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It is erroneous to describe Africa as the “graveyard of journalists” around the world, stated the Africa Program Research Associate of the Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ) Mohamed Keita. Speaking in an exclusive interview with AfricaNews Keita noted more reporters had died elsewhere than Africa.

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How truly free is the media in Bangladesh? In reality, my beloved Bangladesh has no free media. Most of the owners of media houses have other businesses of their own. Not only that, but most of the media owners have huge amounts of “black money”. They don’t pay the journalists well, so most journalists are getting bribes or gifts from influential political and business people. Our media is not serving the poor people or giving voice to those who have no voice and no money. People in media involved in corruption are controlled by the government. And the present trend of media is that those who are corrupt are coming into ownership of media outlets.

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Ekushey Television in 2002 in the regime of BNP-Jammat, CSB News in the regime of Dr. Fakruddin Ahmed Moye-General U Ahmed and lastly this year Jamuna preent TV in the regime of Bangladesh Awami League has closed. So, think our press freedom in Bangladesh.

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