Journalists killed in Bangladesh since 1992
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CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in Bangladesh
August 7, 2018 3:46 PM ET
On July 29, two students were killed, and 12 others injured when a bus plowed into a passengers waiting at a stop in Dhaka. Since then, daily demonstrations that started in Dhaka have spread throughout Bangladesh. Thousands of students have demonstrated on the streets of Dhaka at major traffic...
Bangladesh orders Shahidul Alam held 7 days; more than a dozen journalists attacked
August 6, 2018 5:42 PM ET
New York, August 6, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately halt widespread attacks on journalists covering ongoing student protests in Dhaka and to release photographer Shahidul Alam from jail....
Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam detained after post about Dhaka protests
August 5, 2018 6:18 PM ET
New York, August 5, 2018--A group of men who said they were from the detective branch of Dhaka police today took Shahidul Alam, a photographer, commentator, and the founder of the Bangladeshi multimedia organization Drik and Pathshala Media Institute, from his home, hours after he posted a video to...
Journalists in Bangladesh attacked and beaten covering local election
August 1, 2018 6:12 PM ET
New York, August 1, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned violence against journalists covering local elections in the Bangladesh city of Sylhet, and called on authorities to identify and hold the attackers to account. At least four journalists were beaten, allegedly by police and supporters of the ruling...
Bangladeshi editor injured in attack outside courtroom
July 24, 2018 5:35 PM ET
New York, July 24, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today strongly condemned Sunday's attack on editor Mahmudur Rahman in Kushtia, a city in Bangladesh, and urged the authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice....
Bangladesh's press say they are losing the courage to report amid threats from all sides
February 13, 2018 11:35 AM ET
Nazmul Huda pointed his TV camera at garment workers demonstrating for higher wages in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, and at the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at them. It took a while for police to notice the ETV reporter, and they were furious. After all,...
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression
December 13, 2017 12:00 AM ET
For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers--Turkey, China, and Egypt--into improving the bleak climate for press freedom. A CPJ special report by Elana...
Bangladesh detains two Myanmar journalists covering Rohingya crisis
September 15, 2017 5:42 PM ET
New York, September 15, 2017--Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release two Myanmar journalists who police detained on September 7 and drop all charges against them, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....