10 more cases against Mahfuz Anam
Ten more cases were filed against The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in places across the country on Monday, bringing the number of cases up to 29.
The cases- either defamation or sedition- were filed for carrying “confusing and defamatory” reports based on information supplied by the military intelligence DGFI during the military-backed caretaker regime in 2007-08.
The ten cases were filed, one each in Sunamganj, Tangail, Rajshahi, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Laxmipur, Natore, Panchagarh, Kushtia and Cox's Bazar.
At a talk show on a private TV channel on 3 February, Mahfuz Anam made an introspective comment about a lapse in his editorial judgement in publishing some reports that the newspaper could not independently verify during the caretaker government’s tenure.
Since then, defamation and sedition lawsuits have been being filed one after another across the country against The Daily Star editor mainly by ruling party leaders and workers. And, the language of the complaints was almost similar, saying that Mahfuz Anam published “false and distorted” stories against AL president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina to serve the purposes of a force that led Hasina to spend days in prison during the regime.
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