Bangladesh: two media workers reported for defamation
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Feb 5, 2024
- Event Description
Jahanara Islam built a brick kiln named NBM in Amtali upazila. NBM illegally cut soil from flood control dams and took it to the brick kiln. On January 31, reports about that brick kiln illegal activities were published in various newspapers, including Jugantor. In order to protect the illegal brick kiln, the manager of that brick kiln Nooruddin Bayati filed a false defamation case against Jasim Uddin Sikder and Hossain Ali Kazi in Amtali Senior Judicial Magistrate Court.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
Case shared by FORUM-ASIA member Odhikar
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 22.71763319037135
Longitude: 90.35976160412893
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 5 February 2024, media workers Md.Jasim Uddin Sikder and Hossain Ali Kazi, had a false defamation case filed against them for reporting illegal activities involving a brick kiln in Barishal, Bangladesh.