23.02.2016 - 00:44 [ Asia Times ]

Bangladesh editor says military forced him to publish bogus stories against Hasina, Zia

An editor of one of Bangladesh’s most respected newspapers has sparked an uproar by admitting that eight years ago, he published unsubstantiated reports alleging corruption by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, then in the opposition. He says the military fed him the information and pressured him to print it, but it is the journalist who is feeling the heat more than the country’s long-powerful armed forces.