Amar Desh
Amar Desh (Bengali: আমার দেশ) is a defunct daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language since 2004. 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. The newspaper has been closed down by the government of Bangladesh.
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Amar Desh Publications |
| Founder(s) | Mohammad Mosaddak Ali Enayetur Rahman Bappi |
| Publisher | Hashmat Ali |
| Editor | Mahmudur Rahman, since 2008 |
| Managing editor | Syed Abdal Ahmed |
| News editor | Jahed Chowdhury (news) Hasan Hafiz (culture) |
| Staff writers | Oliullah Noman (former staff reporter) |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Language | Bengali |
| Relaunched | amardesh |
| Headquarters | Amar Desh Publications 446/C-446/D Tejgaon Industrial Area Dhaka Bangladesh |
| Circulation | 200,000 (daily) |
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. 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.