"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.