{"id":6168,"date":"2026-02-08T01:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:17:30","slug":"ex-minister-nowfel-slams-british-journalist-david-bergman-for-baseless-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=6168","title":{"rendered":"Ex-minister Nowfel slams British journalist David Bergman for baseless claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel<\/a> has unleashed a scathing attack on British journalist David Bergman\u2014better known as a shameless lapdog of Jamaat-e-Islami\u2014branding him as a disgraced, agenda-driven hack obsessed with defaming Awami League leaders and activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a blistering post on X on Saturday, Nowfel demolished Bergman’s latest smear piece published in the daily Prothom Alo<\/a>, where the so-called “expert” (with zero legitimate credentials) recklessly labelled Nowfel and several party activists as “murderers” without a shred of real evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This treacherous hit job, Nowfel exposed, relies on laughable leaps of logic and recycled garbage from Bergman’s cronies at the Sweden-based propaganda outlet NetraNews, which is funded by NED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowfel ripped into the absurdity: “David Bergman, the self-appointed ‘expert’ on Bangladesh (without any qualification, of course) has implicated me and several activists of our party as ‘murderers’ in an article published in Prothom Alo.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He highlighted the glaring hypocrisy: While Bergman hypocritically whines about an Awami League MP being wrongly charged in a case, he then wildly jumps to accuse Nowfel and others of responsibility for casualties in violent July 2024 clashes\u2014where both sides fought fiercely in self-defense or attack\u2014simply because some activists appeared in photos with him at unrelated political and social events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nowfel blasted the flimsy “justification”: “A random Sweden-based website that found photos of our activists standing with me at completely unrelated political and social events. On that basis alone, he argues it is ‘legally justified’ that I and others should be charged, without a single independent investigation ever being conducted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former minister laid it bare: “Let this be clear: There is not one piece of credible evidence. No investigation. No findings. No proof. Only a phony article by his associate, NetraNews.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He urged Bergman to learn basic law and sense\u2014pointing out the irony that Bergman’s wife and father-in-law are lawyers\u2014rather than peddling “deliberate malignancy and defamation” just because Nowfel and his supporters were on one side during the nationwide chaos of July 2024’s violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowfel summed up Bergman’s toxic pattern: “This is vintage David Bergman: a disgruntled former journalist, no portfolio in any recognised media outlet, and one singular obsession, to malign, defame, and falsely implicate #AwamiLeague activists wherever he finds them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He concluded with a damning truth: “Facts matter. Evidence matters. Opinion dressed up as investigative journalism does not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bergman’s track record reeks of bias\u2014he has long been accused of acting as a mouthpiece for anti-Awami League forces, including Jamaat sympathisers, while cloaking his attacks in the guise of “human rights” and “journalism.” His Prothom Alo piece, which cherry-picks photos and ignores context to push guilt-by-association nonsense, fits perfectly into this pattern of venomous, evidence-free character assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awami League supporters and patriots see through this charade: Bergman isn’t reporting\u2014he’s weaponising media to settle old scores and shield his Islamist allies. Nowfel’s fierce rebuttal stands as a powerful defense against such baseless witch hunts, reminding everyone that slander isn’t journalism, and defamation won’t silence the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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