Dhaka, May 5 -- Information and Broadcasting Advisor Mahfuj Alam has said the "politicisation" of the media under ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's rule is the primary source of journalists' disempowerment.

He alleged that the media was "used as a tool to manufacture consent" for the killings, abductions, and extrajudicial murders that took place during the Awami League government.

"The media functioned as a machine to generate approval for Sheikh Hasina's brutality," he said.

"The politicisation of the media is fundamentally the enemy of journalists. Journalists must understand that this politicisation lies at the heart of their disenfranchisement."

Mahfuj was speaking at a seminar titled "Killing and Persecution of Journalists u...