Bangladesh: Golam Mujtaba Dhruba prosecuted under Information and Communication Technology Act
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Jun 13, 2017
- Event Description
On 11 June 2017, Golam Mujtaba Dhruba reported on an incident which occurred in Manikganj town where a heated altercation took place between the family of a sick child and court employees who refused to move a truck ,rented by Judge Mahbubur in order to move his belongings, that was blocking the road. On 13 June 2017, two days after Golam Mujtaba Dhruba's report was published on bdnews24, Senior Assistant Judge, Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, filed a case against the journalist under section 57 of the ICT Act with the police in Manikganj Sadar, near Dhaka. According to the Judge, Golam Mujtaba Dhruba had distorted the facts in his story. In the case report, Senior Assistant Judge, Mahbubur Rahman, also claimed that the journalist had manipulated the facts and threatened him over the phone. However, journalists gathered in support of their colleague said that the report was prepared and published in accordance with established journalistic rules and ethics.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Media freedom
- Online
- Right to fair trial
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 23.86165119999999
Longitude: 90.0003228
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 13 June 2017, Manikganj Judge, Mahbubur Rahman, filed a case under section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act against human rights defender, Golam Mujtaba Dhruba, for an article he published on 11 June 2017.