Amar Desh

Amar Desh
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Amar Desh Publications
Founder(s)Mohammad Mosaddak Ali
Enayetur Rahman Bappi[1]
PublisherHashmat Ali[2]
EditorMahmudur Rahman, since 2008
Managing editorSyed Abdal Ahmed[3][4]
News editorJahed Chowdhury (news)[3]
Hasan Hafiz (culture)[3]
Staff writersOliullah Noman (former staff reporter)[5]
Founded2004
LanguageBengali
Relaunchedamardesh.co.uk
HeadquartersAmar Desh Publications
446/C-446/D Tejgaon Industrial Area
Dhaka
Bangladesh
Circulation200,000 (daily)[6]

Amar Desh (Bengali: আমার দেশ) is a defunct[7] daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language since 2004.[8] Amar Desh provides news about Bangladesh from local and regional perspectives and covers international news. Amar Desh is considered a popular opposition newspaper in Bangladesh and takes an editorial stance, that favours the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[9][10] The newspaper was closed down by the Government of Bangladesh.[11]

The Awami League government has twice closed down the newspaper, and both times its censorship occurred in conjunction with the arrests of editor Mahmudur Rahman. On 1 June 2010, the editor was arrested and the government shut the newspaper down for 10 days.[9][12] On 11 April 2013, he was arrested again for publishing the Skype conversations between the lead justice of Bangladesh's war crimes trials and Ahmed Ziauddin, and the suppression of the newspaper is ongoing.[13][14]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference history was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ a b c "Amar Desh goes off the press". Daily Sun (Bangladesh). Dhaka. 16 April 2013. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Sabuj, Abdal re-elected President, Gen Secy". banglamail24.com. 30 December 2012. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference noman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Bangladesh arrests editor of top pro-opposition daily". livemint.com. Agence France-Presse. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  7. ^ "Copyrighted - by the Bangladesh state?". Netra News. 26 February 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Amar Desh contempt case adjourned". bdnews24.com. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  9. ^ a b Greenslade, Roy (3 June 2010). "Bangladesh newspaper closed down". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  10. ^ "Govt closes Amar Desh". bdnews24.com. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  11. ^ "Govt closes Amar Desh". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Amar Desh resumes publication". The New Nation. 12 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013 – via HighBeam Research.
  13. ^ "Amar Desh press sealed". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  14. ^ "Sangram press raided". bdnews24.com. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.