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State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat on Tuesday urged the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) to show commitment to human rights and press freedom making and broadcasting documentary on the genocide orchestrated by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He made the call while talking about the recent documentary of the DW on Bangladesh’s human rights situation compared with the context of Sri Lanka at a workshop.
The state minister inaugurated the workshop titled “Right to Information for the Marginalised and Disadvantaged Citizen” at the Information Commission (IC) conference room in the city’s Agargaon area on Tuesday morning, reports BSS.
"Very recently, the DW released a report on human rights tagging Bangladesh with Sri Lanka that witnessed a civil war in the recent past. I don’t want to criticize it, rather I appreciate the commitment of any organisation towards human rights," he said.
"But I would like to ask the DW to prove its commitment to human rights and press freedom by making documentary on the human rights violation and genocide in Gaza," Arafat added.
If the DW could not do it, he said, the documentary will be treated as motivated and a part of anti-Bangladesh conspiracy being carried out by a vested quarter, which does not talk about the problems and development of the marginalised people in real sense and try to tarnish the country's image at the global stage.
Information Commission and Advancing Women’s Right of Access to Information Project of The Carter Centre jointly organised the workshop with Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr Abdul Malek in the chair.
Aroma Dutta, MP, Information Commissioners Shahidul Alam Jhinuk and Masuda Bhatti and USAID Office Director Alena Tansey spoke at the function as special guests.
