TE24 Bangladesh Desk:
US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas today expressed his hope that journalists would be protected from harassment and violence during the upcoming polls in Bangladesh.
“A free press is a vital fixing in a genuine, free vote based system,” he told a conversation coordinated by the US government office here on press opportunity harmonizing with the World Press Freedom Day 2022 at EMK Center focus in the capital.
Haas added: “we as a whole have a commitment to safeguard the free press and to permit writers to look for and report reality unafraid, provocation, or control”.
He said the United States kept a general and indistinguishable strategy about decisions anyplace on the planet that looks for individuals to pick their own administration through free and fair races directed as per worldwide principles.
Previous President of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, likewise a US Jefferson Media Fellow introduced the feature paper at the conversation.
Haas said news coverage is viewed as an honorable calling however progressively, all over the planet, it was turning into a troublesome and hazardous one.
“Obviously, that doesn’t mean the United States is wonderful with regards to having a free press” as the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index revealed that the United States positioned 42nd out of 180 nations.
“The United States, to be honest, requirements to improve.”
The agent said Bangladesh additionally scored low in the record generally due to the Digital Security Act.
The United States has made their interests about the DSA understood, both in their yearly Human Right Report and in gatherings with government authorities.
Japanese representative ITO Naoki, Canadian High Commissioner Lilly Nicholls, Deputy British High Commissioner Javed Patel and The Prothom Alo proofreader Matiur Rahman likewise talked on the event.
A snapshot of quiet was seen to pay tribute to Palestinian-American columnist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was unfortunately killed in the West Bank.
World Press Freedom Day was declared by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation embraced at the twenty-6th meeting of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991.
Consistently, May third is a date which commends the basic standards of press opportunity, to assess press opportunity all over the planet, to shield the media from assaults on their freedom and to honor writers who have lost their lives in the activity of their calling.
