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British journalist convicted of contempt for questioning death toll
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2314.htm
Publisher: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Date Written: 10/12/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court's conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war.
Abstract: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court's conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war.
A special war crimes court, the International Crimes Tribunal, on Tuesday, December 2 ruled that a blog and two other articles written by Bergman, 49, "hurt the feelings of the nation" and fined him USD 65 or a week's imprisonment.
Bergman, the editor of...
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