Chief Adviser Professor Yunus has ordered an investigation into celebrated editor Nurul Kabir alleging he became as soon as confused at the Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport no longer too long within the past.
In an announcement in the present day (23 November), the CA’s press wing said, “We sincerely remorse the incident.”
The intervening time authorities will not be any longer going to tolerate harassment of any journalists within the country, it said.
“Nurul Kabir has been one of our most revered editors, a main roar of motive and a top champion of journalistic integrity at some stage in his long profession,” the instruct added.
The editor of Original Age in the present day alleged he confronted harassment at the metropolis airport twice this week while flying to and from Colombo to support a press convention.
He went to Colombo on 18 November to support the Asia Media Discussion board and obtained lend a hand the day old to this.
In a post on his verified Facebook, Kabir wrote, “The country’s immigration authorities were harassing me at the Dhaka airport on every occasion I am going in yet another country for bigger than twenty years.”
He alleged he would possibly maybe maybe maybe well be interrogated, obtained his passport confiscated, amongst other incidents while leaving the country on times.
“This time, on 18 November, as I became as soon as going in yet another country for a media convention, I anticipated that my days of harassment at the Dhaka airport had been over, at the least for some time. I became as soon as contaminated,” he said.
“It has been fairly doubled this time. One hour while departing and one hour while returning home on 22 November.”
“Being patriotic is a matter of being a suspect by the intelligence companies of the country. I’m forced to ask the patriotism of the country’s intelligence companies concerned and these within the authorities/s who supervise them, if in any respect,” he added.
