A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to ban broadcast of Al Jazeera Television in Bangladesh.
The Qatar-based news channel broadcasted the documentary titled All the Prime Minister's Men on February 2.
Lawyer Md Anamul Kabir Emon submitted the petition as a public interest litigation to the HC today also requesting the HC to order the government to remove the contents of the report aired by Al Jazeera from all social media including Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
Anamul Kabir Emon said in the petition that the Al Jazeera documentary has damaged the image of Bangladesh at home and abroad and hurt the sovereignty of Bangladesh.
Contents of the report are not authentic, he said, adding that Al Jazeera had earlier broadcast reports damaging the image of Bangladesh but no action was taken against the people who are involved in doing these.
Writ petitioner Anamul Kabir Emon said tonight that he requested the HC to ask secretaries to the ministries of post and telecommunications, information and home affairs, inspector general of police, chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission and other relevant government officials to take necessary action to this effect.
He said that he will place the petition before the HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Kamrul Hossain Mollah tomorrow for its hearing.
