Articles by Media Watch
Forty IFEX members protest attacks on free expression
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway, at the IFEX General Meeting. Forty IFEX members signed the following statement, calling on the Bahraini authorities to address recent attacks on free expression in that country.
Thirty-seven IFEX members express concern about deterioration of free expression
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway, at the IFEX General Meeting. Thirty-seven IFEX members signed on to a statement calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to address the deterioration in press freedom.
Media Watch releases report on torture, killing, harassment of journalists in 2005
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a 1 January 2006 Media Watch press release: Bangladesh – 2005 The year 2005 was one of torture and repression for journalists in Bangladesh, as documented by Media Watch’s monitoring report published 1 January 2006. The report indicates that at least 370 journalists were tortured in 2005, while three […]
Journalists receive death threats from Islamist militant group
(Media Watch/IFEX) On December 6 2005, the banned Islamist militant outfit Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) threatened to bomb the Chittagong Press Club (CPC) and to kill twenty-two journalists working in the city. Chittagong is the largest port city of the country, located 264 kilometers from the capital of Dhaka. The death threat, in the form […]
Journalist killed
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a 17 November 2005 Media Watch press release: Journalist Killed Faridpur District Bureau chief and staff correspondent of the daily “Samakal”, Gautam Das, 28, was strangled to death at his office Thursday. His legs and hand were found fractured and a nylon rope was tied around his neck. Hasanuzzaman, […]
Journalists’ union accuses government of sabotaging convention
(Media Watch/IFEX) – On 10 November 2005, the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) accused the government of orchestrating the cancellation of the venue reservation for the national convention of journalists scheduled for 11 November, in the name of “security reasons.” This reflects the government’s “undemocratic and unfriendly behaviour towards journalists,” BFUJ leaders said at […]
Editor killed
(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 […]
Two foreign journalists deported
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: TWO FOREIGN JOURNALISTS DEPORTED On 11 December 2002, the Bangladeshi government deported two foreign journalists, Zaiba Naz Malik and Leopoldo Bruno Sorrentino. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Reaz Rahman announced the deportation of the Channel 4 TV journalists at a press conference, as an […]