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Govt to try killers of journalists

Pledges PM

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she asked the home ministry for taking measures for holding the trial of the killers of journalists as the government wanted to ensure justice.
Addressing the leaders of journalist organisations at her office, Hasina requested them to provide information for the speedy trial of the cases and ensuring justice.
The prime minister also urged the journalists not to publish any false and fabricated news and do
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Saying that false and distorted news might bring immense sufferings to the entire nation, the Awami League president sought cooperation of the journalists for the country’s uninterrupted development.
"We got the democracy
after passing a long bumpy path, and so we have to continue this democratic process,” Hasina said while distributing cheques of assistance at her office among sick, distressed and accident-wounded journalists as well as the family members of journalists killed in various incidents.
She mentioned that media in Bangladesh was enjoying the highest freedom and her government wanted to make them more powerful. “But”, she said, “There's also a responsibility along with this freedom."
During her party's 1996-2001 period, Hasina said, they had given permission to private televi-
sion channel for the first time and this time permitted 15 more private channels along with private FM and community radios.
Hasina also claimed that her party always tried to help the journalists whether it was in power or in the opposition.
She urged the journalist leaders to inform her about
the miseries of sick and distressed and hapless journalists who live outside Dhaka.
Hasina assured the journalists that she would extend her cooperation for the continuation of education of their children, no matter whether she remains the prime minister or not.
About the measures
taken by her government for the betterment of the journalists, the prime minister said the provision of issuing of summons instead of arrest warrant against journalists was introduced through amending the Criminal Code of Procedures to stop the harassment of journalists.
The prime minister
also mentioned about the formation of the Eighth Wage Board for the journalists.
Earlier, the prime min-ister handed over cheques among 61 journalists and their family members.
Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad, Information Secretary Hedayet Ullah Al Mamun
and BFUJ President Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion, when BFUJ Secretary General Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, DUJ president Omar Faruk, General Secretary Shaban Mahmud, DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badshah and General Secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Topu were present.