Sajeeb asks western embassies to stop talking about freedom of speech

        Sajeeb Wazed Joy

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of  Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday asked ‘western embassies’, including that of the United States, in Dhaka to stop issuing ‘hypocritical statements’ regarding freedom of speech in Bangladesh.

‘I want the US Embassy in Dhaka, as well as other western embassies to take note of this post. We do not want to see hypocritical statements from you in the future regarding freedom of speech in Bangladesh anymore,’ Joy, also information and communication technology affairs adviser to the prime minister, said in his Facebook post.

Joy made the statement after Twitter and several other social media sites in the US banned the accounts of president Donald Trump and several others after Capitol violence.

For all of those who complain about Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act, Joy said, in the US the government allowed private companies to dictate.

‘In Bangladesh we believe that it should not be up to private companies, but up to the courts to decide. Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, but that freedom ends when you spread falsehoods that end up hurting others. No one has the right to hurt others,’ he wrote.

New Age