Attacks on the Press in 2007: Bangladesh
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
2 April 2008
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Civil society groups express alarm over the spate of violent attacks on journalists and human rights defenders exercising their right to freedom of expression.
The rape highlights the escalating dangers confronting journalists in Bangladesh amid a deteriorating state of press freedom in the country.
Civil society groups urged the interim Bangladesh government to reconsider some provisions in the proposed Cyber Protection Ordinance and the Personal Data Protection Ordinance.