Editors’ Council's statement

Editors’ Council condemned and protested filing cases against Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam.

 

The Council came up with the protests in a meeting, held at Dhaka Club with Samakal editor and Editors' Council president Golam Sarwar in the chair on Wednesday.

 

In a statement Editors Council said, 'the meeting of the Editors’ Council has noted with concern that 66 cases including defamation cases involving Tk 82,646.5 crore have been filed at various places of the country against Mahfuz Anam, Editor of The Daily Star, and General Secretary of the Editors’ Council.'

 

The Editors’ Council condemns and protests such incidents, the statement added.

 

The statement said, 'The meeting feels that such incidents go against freedom of the press. We expect that all cases against Mahfuz Anam will be withdrawn. The Editors’ Council also expected that good sense would prevail among all quarters in this regard.'

 

Mahfuz Anam, Editor- Publisher, The Daily Star, and General Secretary of Editors’ Counci; Reaz Uddin Ahmed, Editor, News Today; Moazzem Hossain, Editor, The Financial Express; Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, Editor, Manabzamin; M Shamsur Rahman, Editor, The Independent, Naim Nizam, Editor, Bangladesh Pratidin; Matiur Rahman, Editor, Prothom Alo; Nurul Kabir, Editor, New Age; Imdadul Haque Milon, Editor, Kaler Kantho; Dewan Hanif Mahmud, Editor, Banik Barta; A M M Bahauddin, Editor, Inquilab; Shyamol Dutta, Editor, Bhorer Kagoj;  and Zafar Sobhan, Editor, Dhaka Tribune were also present in the meeting.