Humayun Kabir

Across Asia, press freedom conditions varied radically in 2003, from authoritarian regimes with strictly regulated state-controlled media in North Korea and Laos, to democratic nations with outspoken and diverse journalism in India and Taiwan. Members of the media throughout the region struggled against excessive government interference, outdated press laws, violent attacks, and imprisonment for their…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by an ongoing series of attacks on local journalists in Bangladesh’s southern Jhalakathi District led by members of your political party, the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).