Bangladesh

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed grave concern over a 4 January 2005 murder attempt against journalist Dip Azad. He escaped when a homemade bomb thrown at him failed to explode. Azad, a correspondent for the national daily “Jugantor” in Khulna (southwestern Bangladesh), was walking in the street in the evening when two assailants on a […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 November 2004 CPJ letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia condemning the ongoing detention of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: November 29, 2004 Her Excellency Khaleda Zia Prime Minister, People’s Republic of Bangladesh Office of the Prime Minister Dhaka, Bangladesh Via facsimile: 011-880-1-811-3244 Your Excellency: Today marks the one-year […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ calls for Government action in response to journalist murdered in Bangladesh The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today called for an investigation into the murder of journalist Shahid Anwar, of the Daily Asian Express. Anwar was […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 October 2004 CPJ press release: BANGLADESH: Veteran journalist brutally murdered by ax-wielding assailants New York, October 4, 2004 – Assailants wielding knives and traditional axes brutally murdered the executive editor of the Bangla-language daily Durjoy Bangla, late Saturday night in the latest fatal attack on the press in […]

(Media Watch/IFEX) – On the night of 2 October 2004, Dipankar Chakroborty, a 55-year-old senior journalist and executive editor of the Bogra-based daily “Durjoy Bangla”, was hacked to death near his residence in Sherpur. The attack occurred as Chakroborty, who was also vice-president of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), was returning home from […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed outrage at the impunity with which journalists are being routinely attacked in Bangladesh after a gang of drug traffickers viciously beat a reporter, leaving him unconscious on the road. Azaharul Islam Montu, a correspondent for the daily “Grammer Kagoj”, based in Ashasuni Upazila, Satkhira district, southwest Bangladesh, was attacked and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 14 September 2004 press release: BANGLADESH: At least eight journalists attacked in Dhaka campus unrest New York, September 14, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the violent attacks by pro-government activists on at least eight journalists covering demonstrations on the Dhaka University campus in the capital, Dhaka, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 23 August 2004 RSF press release: Investigative journalist murdered Armed men abducted and murdered journalist Kamal Hossain, of the daily Ajker Kagoj, on 22 August. He is the third journalist to be killed in Bangladesh since the beginning of the year. Expressing its deep shock, Reporters Without Borders called […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 August 2004 CPJ press release: BANGLADESH: Newspaper threatened New York, August 23, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the growing number of threats being made against the popular Bangla-language daily Prothom Alo by Islamic groups in the capital, Dhaka, and in the […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN is seriously concerned for the safety of leading writer and lecturer Humayun Azad and his family following a series of recent death threats. Azad was previously targeted in an attack in February 2004. The attack and ongoing threats against Azad and his family are believed to be connected […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 July 2004 CPJ press release: ISLAMIC GROUPS THREATEN DOZENS OF JOURNALISTS IN BANGLADESH New York, July 13, 2004-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the rapidly growing number of death threats against journalists and writers throughout Bangladesh. Since July 10, at least 24 journalists and writers […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 29 June 2004 letter to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, CPJ condemned the ongoing imprisonment of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the editor and publisher of the tabloid weekly “Blitz”, who was jailed on sedition charges. CPJ called for his immediate and unconditional release. Choudhury was arrested seven months ago, on 29 November […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: JOURNALIST MURDERED IN BANGLADESH New York, June 28, 2004-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns yesterday’s murder of Humayun Kabir, editor of the Bangla-language daily Janmabhumi, who was killed in a bomb attack in the southwestern city of Khulna. At around 12 p.m., an unidentified assailant […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The editor of a regional weekly in the southwestern city of Khulna has been killed in a bomb attack, less than six months after the murder of a BBC World Service local correspondent in the same city. An armed, far-left group claimed responsibility for the latest killing. RSF and the Bangladesh Centre for […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: BANGLADESH: Journalists assaulted by prison guards New York, NY, June 24, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent attack on two journalists by prison guards at a district jail in Satkhira, a town in southwestern Bangladesh. On June 22, Mozaffar Rahman, a […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 June 2004 CPJ press release: BANGLADESH: Journalists attacked by police New York, June 8, 2004-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns two recent police attacks on journalists covering street demonstrations in connection with a nationwide antigovernment strike, or hartal. On Friday, June 4, the eve of the strike, […]