Reporters Without Borders :
Press freedom index-2016 Bangladesh has ranked 144th among 180 countries in terms of press freedom in 2015, a year which saw a “deep and disturbing decline” in respect of the media.
In the global context, the country went up two steps in the world press freedom index-2016 from the 146th position in 2015.
Still, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), in its report on the ranking released on Wednesday,
voiced serious concern over the state of freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
“Journalists and bloggers who refuse to submit to censorship or to censor themselves on these subjects [the constitution or Islam] risk life imprisonment or the death penalty,” observed the leading journalism advocacy group.
Bangladesh’s position is the lowest, except Pakistan’s, in the South Asian scene. The index has placed Pakistan at 147th position, Sri Lanka at 141st, India at 133rd, Afghanistan at 120th, Nepal at 105th and Bhutan at 94th.
The 2016 report by RSF or Reporters Without Borders is “indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control” over newsrooms by authoritarian and oppressive governments and private-sector interests.
“It is unfortunately clear that many of the world’s leaders are developing a form of paranoia about legitimate journalism,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire.
“We are entering a new era of propaganda where new technologies allow the low-cost dissemination of their own communication, their information, as dictated.
Press freedom index-2016 Bangladesh has ranked 144th among 180 countries in terms of press freedom in 2015, a year which saw a “deep and disturbing decline” in respect of the media.
In the global context, the country went up two steps in the world press freedom index-2016 from the 146th position in 2015.
Still, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), in its report on the ranking released on Wednesday,
voiced serious concern over the state of freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
“Journalists and bloggers who refuse to submit to censorship or to censor themselves on these subjects [the constitution or Islam] risk life imprisonment or the death penalty,” observed the leading journalism advocacy group.
Bangladesh’s position is the lowest, except Pakistan’s, in the South Asian scene. The index has placed Pakistan at 147th position, Sri Lanka at 141st, India at 133rd, Afghanistan at 120th, Nepal at 105th and Bhutan at 94th.
The 2016 report by RSF or Reporters Without Borders is “indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control” over newsrooms by authoritarian and oppressive governments and private-sector interests.
“It is unfortunately clear that many of the world’s leaders are developing a form of paranoia about legitimate journalism,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire.
“We are entering a new era of propaganda where new technologies allow the low-cost dissemination of their own communication, their information, as dictated.
