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| Bangladesh |
| 79 cases and counting: Legal challenges pile up for Daily Star editor |
| 2016-02-26 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] When Mahfuz Anam, editor of one of Bangladesh's most respected newspapers, admitted recently to a lapse in editorial judgment several years ago, he could not have predicted the legal backlash that would ensue. Anam's admission that he published unsubstantiated information accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of corruption has led to a barrage of defamation and sedition cases against him, along with an arrest warrant and calls for his paper, The Daily Star, to be shuttered. |
| Posted by:Fred |