M Mushfiqul Fazal from New York
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, has said United Nations believe that journalists, through their websites, need to be able to work freely from harassment.
The Spokesman for the Secretary-General came up with these comment on Monday at the regular noon briefing in the UN headquarter in reply a question over Bangladesh government decision on blocking 54 news portals including Just News BD.
At the briefing UN Correspondent and Just News BD editor M Mushfiqul Fazal asked “On Bangladesh, Bangladesh, freedom of press and freedom of expression is very much controlled by the ruling authority, as you know. Last piece is, they blocked yesterday 58 news portal, including my news portal, justnewsbd — the Government blocked. And then they reinstate and, within 24 hours, they again blocked, . And this is for third phase we are facing justnewsbd.com. So, what is your comment…?”
In reply Stéphane Dujarric said, “I have not seen those particular reports, but it is clear that we believe that journalists, through their websites, need to be able to work freely from harassment.”
(Justnews/ys/1400hr)
