Bangladesh: UN experts express concern over increasing political violence, crackdown on media freedoms
"UN experts sound alarm on political violence, media freedom in Bangladesh", 15 November 2023
UN experts have expressed concerns about a severe crackdown against workers demanding fair wages and political activists calling for a free and fair election, judicial harassment of journalists, human rights defenders and civil society leaders, and failure to reform laws suppressing freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
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They expressed alarm at threats to media freedom, noting that attacks, surveillance, intimidation and judicial harassment of the press over the past several years had led to widespread self-censorship in the media.