Wikipedia loses minimal integrity by becoming a member of character assassination try focusing on Blitz editor

Whereas most people don’t think about Wikipedia as a reputable supply of knowledge as it’s managed by a whole lot of its unnamed “editors” whereas it additionally grants entry to anybody in altering and even distorting any current info, this entity has now has overtly joined arms with a gang of criminals working underneath the direct instructions of Antonia Albina Maino and her scandalous son Raul Vinci in publicly demonizing picture of Blitz editor and internationally acclaimed multi-award profitable anti-militancy journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

In response to info, after greater than 20 years, Wikipedia web page of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury was suspiciously altered within the night of September 7, 2024, the place the primary paragraph suspiciously states, “Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a Bangladeshi journalist and a convicted felon. He’s an editor of the Bangladeshi tabloid Blitz, and has posted disinformation on numerous events”.

To start with, Mr. Choudhury or Blitz have by no means been accused of publishing/posting “disinformation on numerous events” as falsely claimed by Wikipedia. Secondly, Mr. Choudhury was falsely charged with sedition, treason and blasphemy costs in 2004 by then an ultra-Islamist coalition authorities of Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for the “crimes” of confronting radical Islam and militancy; for denouncing anti-Semitism; and selling interfaith concord. On this trumped-up case, BNP-JeI nexus even went additional by branding Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury as “Mossad agent”.

In 2014, Awami League authorities, who proclaims to be secular with documented affiliations with anti-Semitic forces, together with Palestinian militancy shops resembling Hamas, pressured the Dhaka Metropolitan Session Decide’s Court docket to wrongly convict Mr. Choudhury with 7-years rigorous imprisonment. Throughout his imprisonment, Awami League authorities saved Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury within the Condemned Cell at Kashimpur Central Jail alongside death-row inmates. Conserving a daily prisoner in a condemned cell is gross-violation of human rights and unprecedented within the historical past of any nation.

The Wikipedia web page additionally suspiciously claims that Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury faces costs of “smuggling info in another country”, though this false case, which was filed in 1999 by then Awami League authorities in opposition to Bangladesh’s first personal tv channel ‘A-21’ was dismissed by the Metropolitan Session Decide’s Court docket in 2001, whereas the court docket requested the authorities involved to take acceptable actions in opposition to officers concerned in submitting of this “false, baseless and ridiculous case”.

Sadly, Wikipedia doesn’t point out a phrase about this court docket verdict.

Wikipedia has additionally eliminated details about an editorial titled ‘The dangers of journalism in Bangladesh printed in The New York Occasions in 2003. A model of this text additionally appeared in print version of NYT on December 14, 2003, Part 4, Web page 10 of the Nationwide version with the headline: The Dangers of Journalism in Bangladesh.

The NYT editorial acknowledged:

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Muslim editor and commentator in Bangladesh, has a uncommon advantage — he champions dialogue and decency in a tradition hemmed in by extremism and corruption. When his weekly newspaper, Blitz, printed articles favorable to Israel, it was blacklisted by numerous firms. Some folks demanded that the paper be banned. Mr. Choudhury was thrown out of a non-public tv firm.

However all of this pales in contrast with what occurred final month. As he boarded a flight in Dhaka, the capital, on his option to a writers’ convention in Tel Aviv, Mr. Choudhury was arrested by safety personnel, accused of being a spy and thrown in jail. The fees are a baseless sham. The Committee to Shield Journalists in New York and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières have vigorously condemned his arrest. Governments, together with Washington, must demand his launch.

The Tel Aviv assembly Mr. Choudhury was planning to attend was referred to as ”Bridges Via Tradition” and the lecture he hoped to ship involved the position of the media in establishing peace. Mr. Choudhury, who was going to open a Bangladeshi department of a bunch referred to as the Worldwide Discussion board for the Literature and Tradition of Peace, would have been the primary journalist from Bangladesh to talk publicly in Israel.

Mr. Choudhury’s mistreatment shouldn’t be occurring in a vacuum. Muslim extremism is rising in Bangladesh. Furthermore, violence in opposition to journalists who stand as much as the ruling occasion, the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration, has been rising, particularly within the south and particularly for these exposing hyperlinks between politicians and arranged crime. On Dec. 4, a correspondent for a southern regional each day was crushed and stabbed by members of the occasion’s youth wing after publication of an article vital of a key native politician.

On Thursday, the Committee to Shield Journalists and Reporters Sans Frontières despatched letters to Khaleda Zia, the prime minister of Bangladesh, expressing grave concern over these developments. Their alarm is kind of justified. Bangladesh might now be among the many world’s most harmful international locations for journalists. That makes Mr. Choudhury’s brave stand for Muslim-Jewish dialogue all of the extra admirable — and important to defend.

Criticizing this ridiculous case, Congressman Tom Lantos (Rep, Calif) in an article titled ‘Bangladesh embarks on a worrisome path’ in The Hill acknowledged:

Like different journalists in Bangladesh of late, Choudhury has endured loss of life threats and assaults for his writings.  The headquarters of his newspaper had been lately bombed.  His case has raised alarm and assist amongst human rights teams resembling Worldwide PEN and the Committee to Shield Journalists.

Choudhury’s struggling has already dragged on for 3 years, courting to his arrest on the airport in Dhaka as he was about to move to Israel for a writers’ convention.  He was saved in solitary confinement for 17 months, enduring torture and deplorable circumstances, till costs that had been introduced in opposition to him for espionage had been dropped.

If he’s now convicted and sentenced for sedition, the Worldwide Relations Committee will conduct hearings into the connection between the US and Bangladesh. Amongst different issues, the committee’s jurisdiction contains international help.

Again in 2007, the US Congress handed a bi-partisan decision (HR-64/2007) in protection of Mr. Choudhury by 409 votes. Related resolutions had been additionally handed by the European Union Parliament, Parliament of Australia and the UK Parliament.

Within the decision, handed on November 21, 2006s, the UK Parliament stated:

“That this Home declares its assist for voices of peace and moderation within the Muslim world such because the Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who stands trial for sedition, treason and blasphemy, a cost which carries the loss of life sentence; commends Mr Choudhury for exposing the rising menace of maximum Islamism in Bangladesh; deplores the conduct of the choose within the trial, Mohammed Momin Ullah, who has stated he’s not interested by proof and won’t permit any defence witnesses into the court docket file; notes that the Public Prosecutor in Bangladesh has stated that there isn’t a proof to assist the costs; is inspired that worldwide stress has persuaded the Bangladesh authorities to delay Mr Choudhury’s subsequent court docket date till 2007 and to revive the police safety at his home that had been lately eliminated; and urges the UK Authorities to press the federal government of Bangladesh to guard Mr Choudhury from all types of harassment”.

The Wikipedia web page additionally has on-purpose saved a false info titled ‘Inqilab Tv’ though it says, “This part of a biography of a residing individual doesn’t embody any references or sources. Please assist by including dependable sources. Contentious materials about residing folks that’s unsourced or poorly sourced should be eliminated instantly”.

Wikipedia additionally states, “Choudhury is famous for spreading disinformation. He falsely claimed that the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration launched “India out motion”.”

Famous for spreading disinformation? What disinformation has he unfold? Why Wikipedia is extraordinarily nervous at Mr. Choudhury exposing BNP’s involvement behind “India Out”? Is it Wikipedia? Or Antonia Albina Maino and her son Raul Vinci? Why are they a lot interested by defending ultra-Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP), which is also notoriously ant-India? Are Maino and her son Vinci too anti-India and sympathetic to enemies of India?

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