DHAKA, March 17, 2025 (BSS) - The High Court (HC) today removed all barriers 
of resuming the publication of the decades-old weekly "Ekota".

The court stayed the government order that in 2013 banned the publication of 
the Ekota for not regularly submitting its copies to the Department of Films 
and Publications.

The HC bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Mubina Asaf passed the 
stay order following a writ petition filed by the Ekota's Managing Editor 
Muslem Uddin and moved by Advocate Hasan Tarique Chowdhury challenging the 
government order of the ban.

There is no legal bar for the authorities concerned to resume the publication 
of the weekly Ekota following the HC's stay order.

Following the same petition, the HC earlier issued a rule asking the 
authorities concerned to explain why the government's decision to cancel 
Ekota's enrolment as media should not be declared illegal.