New York, September 8, 2005— Islamic militants have threatened to kill nine journalists in southern Bangladesh unless they stop reporting on the activities of three groups calling for the establishment of an Islamic state through “armed revolution.” Pieces of white cloth symbolizing a funeral shroud were mailed to the journalists in the city of Satkhira…
AUGUST 9, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Manjur Morshed, Jugantor ATTACKED Many journalists THREATENED In the southern city of Baufal, witnesses told local reporters and CPJ sources that a large group of cadres from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) abducted Morshed from a local college at noon and forcibly escorted him to a nearby…
New York, July 14, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by a recent series of violent attacks on journalists in Bangladesh, including a gang assault on a reporter inside a local press club. Rafiqul Islam, a correspondent for daily Amar Desh in the northwestern town of Rajshahi, was assaulted on July 6 by…
JULY 7, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Enamul Kabir, Janakantha Several other photographers ATTACKED At least nine photojournalists from national publications were injured, some of them seriously, in the capital, Dhaka, while protesting the alleged mistreatment of their colleagues at the hands of National Security Intelligence (NSI) personnel earlier in the day.
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Nazneen Akhter, Janakantha Journalists at Jugantor, Ittefaq and Prothom Alo THREATENED Janakantha reported that Nazneen Akhter, a reporter for the newspaper in Dhaka, had been threatened after her coverage of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activities at a women’s college. JCD is the ruling party’s student wing.