The week that was supposed to mark the freedom of Bangladesh was at least in the West, marred by a tussle over another 'freedom'..

By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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2130 Hrs GMT London Saturday 20 December 2008:

'News' from Bangladesh this weekend has been about the 'freedom' 'granted by a British court in London' to a 'Bangladesh-born' 'British doctor' [!!!!!] from the 'drugging and gagging' by her own parents and family in or around the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka! The photographs, at least some of the photographs, that have appeared on the prominently displayed newspapers and TV screens, have been commented on elsewhere in not quite positive terms. It has been attributed to the fact that she is of a forgiving nature and has forgiven both her parents. They are still her parents, she has been reported to have said. Perhaps in due course she will be presenting another dimension of what can only be described as an ordeal she has claimed to have suffered at the hands of her parents. several comments have already been made about the events. One commentator has even stated that the case has been baffling!……

I am going to start by putting on the record my apprehension that some people may even suggest that the reported events were not all credible.… In fact the initial ‘coverage’ of the events concerned by the so-called Bangladeshi media in the UK has been one of unmistakable detachment. Those very elements have now [at Saturday 20 December 2008] changed their tunes and have established a sort of factuality in their coverage of some of the activities following the reported victim’s return to the UK.…There is a historic feature at work in the UK-based and allegedly Bangladeshi print media... They take months before they catch up on what is going on inside the Bangladeshi community in the UK itself. On some aspects they don’t do so until after years have passed by... On other issues they NEVER recognise the facts EVER AT ALL... I shall return to this theme in the course of this commentary... in the next day or two... If it turns out that there was any evidence of exaggeration or fiction imported into the alleged allegations.…. Here I am thinking VERY MUCH of what the USA had witnessed around a story ….in the 1980s.….

.The story was utter sensation as it hit the then media... In the age before mass access to the internet and way before mass tv channels.... [To be continued]