Articles by Media Watch
Journalists receive death threats
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: JOURNALISTS RECEIVE DEATH THREATS Terrorists believed to be supporters of the ruling party have sent death threats to Jamaluddin, a staff reporter for the daily Manavzamin, and Bakhtiar Islam Munna, a correspondent for the daily Ittefaq, both of whom work in the Feni district. […]
Journalist receives death threats, newspaper office attacked
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: JOURNALIST RECEIVES DEATH THREAT / NEWSPAPER OFFICE ATTACKED 1. Terrorists have issued death threats against Moktar Hossain, correspondent in Khulna for the daily Bhorer Dak, published in Dhaka. According to a general diary filed with the Khulna thana [police station] on 9 March 2002, […]
Journalist receives death threats
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a 9 March 2002 Media Watch press release: JOURNALIST UNDER THREAT Another journalist has received death threats from a group of terrorists. The threats are believed to originate with the active leader of the Chattra League, the student wing of the opposition Awami League. Tareq Murtaza, the Dhaka University […]
Journalist receives death threats, another threatened by government official
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: JOURNALISTS UNDER THREAT / Journalists Protest At least one journalist has received death threats from a group of terrorists and another journalist was threatened by a government bureaucrat. In a separate incident, journalists staged a protest against a provocative remark by a ruling party […]
Journalist receives death threat, another assaulted
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a 4 March 2002 Media Watch press release: JOURNALISTS UNDER THREAT / PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED At least one journalist has received death threats from a group of terrorists who are believed to be members of the ruling party in Chittagong. Another journalist was physically assaulted in the southern district of […]
Charges filed against journalist Nahar Ali’s killers
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a 2 March 2002 Media Watch press release: Journalist Nahar Ali killing: charge-sheet submitted After completion of a 10-month investigation, police have submitted a charge-sheet against 16 terrorists for the killing of journalist Nahar Ali of Khulna. On 17 April 2001, miscreants kidnapped journalist Nahar Ali from his Dumuria […]
Journalist killed, three suspects arrested
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following alert was compiled from Media Watch press releases dated 2 and 3 March 2002: Harunur Rashid (alias Khokan), a senior staff reporter from the daily “Dainik Purbanchal”, was shot dead on Saturday 2 March 2002, at around 8:00 p.m. (local time), by unidentified assailants in the southern divisional headquarters of […]
Journalists receive death threats
(Media Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Media Watch press release: 27 February 2002 JOURNALISTS UNDER THREAT At least two journalists receive death threats from members of the ruling party in different parts of the country. 1. A K M Musharraf Hussain, the Jamalpur district correspondent for the daily “Ittefaq”, which has the widest circulation, […]