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New York, October 24, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention of Bangladeshi reporter Jahangir Alam Akash, who was taken from his home in the northwestern city of Rajshahi by members of an elite government task force on Tuesday night. Akash, a reporter for the Bengali-language daily Dainik Sangbad, was jailed on…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260