Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Committee formed to reevaluate Press Accreditation Policy 2022
A 17-member committee has been formed over reevaluation of press accreditation policy 2022.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a notification regarding the formation of the committee on Thursday.
HC questions validity of canceling Channel I journalist’s press accreditationThe committee will be chaired by Md Sarwar Alam, press secretary to the President, with Mohammad Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, deputy chief information officer of the Department of Information, serving as the member secretary, and Md Ataur Rahman Khan NDC, additional secretary of the Public Security Division, as convener.
Broad cancellation of press accreditation threatens free press: Editors' CouncilThe committee will reevaluate the Press Accreditation Policy-2022, propose necessary additions, amendments, and refinements, and submit its report to the Secretary of the Ministry, the notification added.
Press accreditation cards of 30 more journalists scrappedThe other members of the committee are:-Md. Kausar Ahmed, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting-Md. Nizamul Kabir, Chief Information Officer, Department of Information-Khaleda Begum, Director General, Department of Films and Publications-Abul Kalam Azad Mazumder, Deputy Press Secretary, Office of the Chief Adviser-Fayez Ahmed, Senior Assistant Press Secretary, Office of the Chief Adviser-Md. Obaidur Rahman Shaheen, Acting President, BFUJ-Md. Shahidul Islam, President, DUJ-Abu Saleh Akon, President, Dhaka Reporters' Unity-Daulat Akhtar Mala, President, Economic Reporters' Forum-Elias Hossain, Trustee, Broadcast Journalists Centre
-Shikdar Abir Mahmud (Sam) Jahan, Founding Convener, Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJAIM)-Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Member, DCAB and BSRF-Saleem Samad, Bangladesh Correspondent, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)-Indrajit Kumar Ghosh, President, Bangladesh Photojournalist Association
The committe will submit the report to the Information and Broadcasting secretary by February 10.
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Journalists to be allowed to enter secretariat with temporary passes from Monday
Journalists will get temporary passes to enter the Secretariat from Monday.
Accreditation cards of journalists are being re-evaluated by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and new permanent or temporary accreditation cards / passes will be issued very soon, according to a PID handout.
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Visitors and journalists were barred from entering the Secretariat for the sake of investigation in the wake of the recent fire incident in the 7th building of the Bangladesh Secretariat.
The fire severely damaged four floors of Building No. 7, from the sixth to the ninth, which housed multiple key ministries and divisions on December 26.
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Meanwhile, several investigative committees have been formed to look into the incident.
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Press accreditation of 20 senior journos scrapped
The government has scrapped the permanent and temporary press accreditation cards of 20 senior journalists including Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Farzana Rupa, and Farida Yasmin.
A gazette notification, signed by Md Nizamul Kabir, chief information officer of the Press Information Department under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was issued in this regard.
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The gazette reads the accreditation was cancelled under sections 6.9, 6.10, 9.5 and 9.6 of the Press Accreditation Principle-2022.
Those accreditation scrapped included former Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh Jafar Wazed, former press minister Shaban Mahmud, Ekattor Television’s former Chief of editors Mozzamel Haque, Bhorer Kagoj editor Shyamal Dutta, Bangladesh Pratidin editor Naem Nizam, ABCnews24.com chief editor Subhash Chandra Singha Roy, Munni Saha and Amadershomoy.com editor Naimul Islam Khan, among others.
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Law Minister Anisul Huq assured the Parliament on Sunday (February 25, 2024) that the government is dedicated to safeguarding press freedom and will not impose any restrictions on it.
He highlighted upcoming legislation aimed at combating misinformation and fake news without infringing on media freedom.
Addressing the Parliament in the absence of the State Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Mohammad Ali Arafat, Huq responded to concerns raised by Jatiya Party MP from Patuakhali, ABM Ruhul Amin Hawladar, regarding the spread of false news by online media outlets.
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Hawladar questioned the necessity of a law to prohibit such practices, to which Minister Huq reaffirmed the constitutional guarantee of free speech and press freedom.
“Law has to be made in that light and with due respect,” he said.
He referenced the existing Cyber Security Act, indicating that it, along with forthcoming laws proposed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, aims to address the issue of misinformation responsibly.
The government's approach is to prevent confusion and the spread of fake news through appropriate measures, not control, the Law Minister emphasized, ensuring that the press's freedom remains intact.
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