Abstract
This article examines restrictions imposed on the press in the interest of Bangladesh security and public safety. It examines whether restrictions imposed by the laws and regulations seeking to protect State interests are reasonably justified in a democracy or not. It also examines how these laws inhibit the media’s quest to serve roles expected of them in a democracy. This article delineates inherited colonial regulations, the constitutional provisions related to the freedom of the press and its reasonable restrictions, oath of secrecy and defamation. This study also looks at partisan divisions and self-censorship in the press, official secrecy legislation and the proposed Right to Information Act.
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