Skip Hasina’s speech

The government has requested all media outlets not to broadcast or publish the speech of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India and facing a death sentence for crimes against humanity linked to the July Uprising.

In a public advisory on Friday night, it drew the attention of print, electronic, online news media outlets and social media platforms, asking them to comply with the decision for the sake of law and order in the country and respecting a court ruling.

It recounted that the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) had banned the broadcast of the speech of the ousted and fugitive Hasina on Dec 5, 2024.

“According to the prevailing law of Bangladesh, there is a legal ban on broadcasting any kind of speech, interview, audio-video speech of a fugitive convicted by a court in the media.”�" bdnews24