Dhaka, May 4 -- The Bangladesh Awami League has called attention to the "deteriorating" media freedom standards in the country, and expressed solidarity with journalists who have faced harassment under the Mohd Yunus regime.
In a lengthy post on its X (formerly Twitter), the party wrote: "We express deepest sympathies and stand in solidarity with thousands of journalists who have been terrorised with vile threats of mob violence, indicted in outrageous murder charges, fallen victim to physical assaults and forcibly removed from their jobs over the past seven months but are still standing firm defying state sponsored persecution, in an open display of integrity to serve the nation in an objective manner.
"We protest and appeal for an end t...