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Pro-BNP professionals yesterday voiced for united movement to resist what they termed the “fascist government,” alleging that the ruling party is oppressive to the opposition party and violating people's basic rights to speech and justice.
Awami League, which introduced a one-party rule in 1975, is again trying to do the same by repressing those speaking the truth and protesting injustice, they said at a roundtable titled 'Democracy, human rights and press freedom'.
Fearing police harassment and arrests, many leaders and workers of the main opposition BNP are on the run, they said.
Energy Solutions of Bangladesh, a private research organisation, arranged the discussion at the National Press Club in the city to mark completion of six months of the daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman's imprisonment.
Speakers criticised the court's fining Mahmudur of Tk 1 lakh and imprisonment, which is, they said, much more than fixed in the law.
Dr Emajuddin Ahmed, former vice chancellor of Dhaka University, suggested amendment to the contempt law and recruitment process of the judges so that none linked to any partisan politics could join the judiciary.
Whoever speaks the truth or expresses different views contrary to the government's are facing trouble from the ruling party, said national professor Talukder Moniruzzaman.
Journalist Shafik Rehman, who presented the keynote speech, said the government is totally intolerant to the opposition party's views.
Rehman said right to justice, a fair living, education, privacy, safety, job security and health are the basic human rights in Bangladesh, but all of these rights are denied today.
People are dying in police custody and on the streets, but justice still remains elusive, he added.
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