The move stoked fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DHAKA - The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation.
It covers news stories that the mainstream newspapers, most of which are controlled by pro-government businessmen, rarely do. “The council rejected our appeal yesterday , upholding the district magistrate’s order to stop our publication,” Mr Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, managing editor of the newspaper, told AFP.
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