A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to ban the broadcast of Al Jazeera, a Qatar based news cannel, in Bangladesh.

Al Jazeera broadcast the much talked about documentary titled "All the Prime Minister's Men" on February 4.

Lawyer Md Anamul Kabir Emon in the public interest litigation also requested the HC to order the government to remove the contents of the report from all social media, including Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

Emon said the documentary damaged the image of Bangladesh at home and abroad and hurt the sovereignty of Bangladesh.

Contents of the report are not authentic, he said, adding that Al Jazeera had earlier broadcast reports for damaging the image of Bangladesh but no action was taken against the people involved in those.

He said that he would place the petition before the HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Kamrul  Hossain Mollah today for hearing.