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Press Club seeks apology from Bangladesh official for calling Indian journalists ‘bootlickers’
The Press Club of India on Tuesday sought an apology from Shafiqul Alam, the spokesperson of the chief adviser to Bangladesh's interim government, for describing Indian media outlets that interviewed the country's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as “Western journalists and their Indian bootlicking counterparts”.
In a statement, the press body said that Alam's remarks were “reprehensible”, especially since he is a former journalist himself.
“To describe professionals from responsible media outlets pursuing a genuine news story as ‘bootlicking' journalists is certainly not expected from a person in a responsible position,” it added.
Alam made the remarks in a Facebook post on Tuesday, referring to recent email interviews Hasina gave to several media organisations in India and abroad. She had resigned as prime minister and fled to India in August 2024.
In his post, Alam claimed that Hasina's associates had “hired one of the world's most expensive law firms and her public relations agencies have arranged one-on-one interviews, conveniently taken via email”.
He alleged that “Western journalists and their Indian bootlicking associates” were publishing the interviews “without being sure if the answers are really coming from Hasina” or her “public relations officials”.
Alam added that more such “email interviews” would be released in the coming weeks by “Western media and Indian allies”, but they “need not be taken seriously”.
Hasina had fled Bangladesh in August 2024 after several weeks of widespread student-led protests against her Awami League government. She had been in power for 16 years.
Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government on August 8, 2024.
The country is scheduled to hold its first elections since Hasina's ouster in February.
The interim government has said it will investigate Hasina in connection with allegations that she ordered the killings and enforced disappearances of dissidents during the public uprising against her regime.
A total of 51 cases have been filed against her, including 42 for murder. Two warrants for her arrest have also been issued.
Of the 1,400 killed and thousands injured between July 1, 2024, and August 15, 2024, the vast majority were shot by Bangladesh's security forces, a United Nations report said in February. Of these, 12% to 13% killed were children.
In July, she was indicted by the country's International Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the anti-government protests.
The court's verdict on the matter is scheduled for Thursday.
Hasina has denied the allegations and repeatedly claimed that she is being politically persecuted.
Source: Scroll
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