John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)

I acknowledge the Tánaiste's fine record in human rights. I thank him for having made contact with the Bangladeshi authorities but I would urge him to continue those contacts in the coming months. When other countries made contact with the Bangladeshi Prime Minister during the week, he made a curt remark, stating, "We can't guard every journalist's bedroom". That is the extent of the investigation that is currently taking place into the murder of these two young journalists. I urge the Tánaiste to continue to protest against the Bangladeshi Government's harassment of journalists and like-minded people there. The brutal murder of those two journalists in front of their five-year old child should be reinvestigated.

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