Mail Desk: The Ministry of Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting has directed the Department of Posts and Telecommunications to shut down...
Mail Desk:
The Ministry of Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting has directed the Department of Posts and Telecommunications to shut down 178 online news portals. The list includes at least five online news portals in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, including the popular chtnews.com, hill voice.net, chtmail.com. The other hill portals on the closed list are chtmedia24.com and indegenessmedia.wordpress.com.
BIBM gave the information in a press release signed by Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Delwar Hossain on Monday (October 11).
It is mentioned that Cht News, Hill Voice, and Cht Mail, which are on the closed list, mainly try to highlight CHT oppression, eviction of land, & human rights violations. Events and news that are not or rarely published in the country's mainstream news outlets. Cht Mail Editorial Team has rejected the govt direction & mention that it is the extreme interfere of journalism policy, freedom of expression & civil rights. They urge the government to cancellation the Boomerangs Policy.
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