Bangladesh: two media workers attacked, NGO office vandalised
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Feb 12, 2024
- Event Description
Local journalists formed a human chain in protest against the attack on journalists while collecting news in Meherpur Sadar Upazila. Speakers expressed outrage over the attack and demanded exemplary punishment for those involved.
This program was held in front of the Meherpur Press Club at around 11 o'clock on Wednesday. The two injured journalists are Rasheduzzaman of private TV channel 24 and Sirajuddouja of Meherpur's local newspaper Zawardihir.
The two journalists were injured in an attack by miscreants while collecting news of an accident in Amzhupi Bazar area of Sadar Upazila last Monday afternoon. According to witnesses and police sources of the police station, one person was killed on the spot in a collision between two motorcycles in Amzhupi Bazar area. Five journalists went to the scene and recorded their video.
- Impact of Event
- 3
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- NGO
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 22.812926194003403
Longitude: 89.54146273750128
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 February 2024, media workers Rasheduzzaman and Sirajuddaula, were attacked by local residents while reporting an accident, and the office of the NGO Human Development Center was also attacked and vandalised in Khulna, Bangladesh.