Bangladesh, July 30 -- Self-styled ‘Miss Bangladesh Meghna Alam, who also claims to be a “certified political trainer”, appears to be employing contradictory and coercive tactics that amount to an attempt to bully and intimidate this newspaper.

On July 30, shortly after Blitz published a report titled “Threats to Press Freedom: ‘Miss Bangladesh Meghna Alams Response to Investigative Reporting Raises Concerns”, Ms. Alam reached out to the editor of this newspaper via Facebook Messenger. As she is not connected as a Facebook friend, the message remained unattended at first.

The message read:

“Thank you for removing the article. I appreciate the gesture—perhaps there was a misunderstanding o...