Huda ditches US envoy’s remark
on risks for journalists
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The communications minister, Nazmul Huda, dismissed the outgoing US ambassador’s comment on risks of journalists in Bangladesh, saying, ‘the envoy was speaking rubbish’.
‘The press could not publish his speech if the situation was dangerous in the country,’ he said addressing a discussion at the National Press Club organised by the ruling BNP-backed Swadhinata Forum to mark the ‘black day’ for newspapers at the national press club.
The US ambassador, Harry K Thomas, on Tuesday said, ‘Bangladesh is a dangerous place for journalists’.
Huda said the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by defying the will of people banned all but four newspapers on June 16 in 1975. ‘The restriction went not only against the newspapers but also against the democracy and the countrymen.’
The minister for post and telecommunication, Aminul Huque, fascism was always active in Awami League and fascism led to the ban on the newspapers in 1975.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general, Goyeshar Chandra Roy, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists secretary general, Ruhul Amin Gazi, and the Dhaka Sangbadik Union president, Elahi Newaj Khan, also addressed the discussion with the forum president, Abu Nasher Rahmatullah, in the chair.
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