Bangladesh: media worker assaulted, confined in a room, and received serious threats
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Feb 18, 2024
- Event Description
Rakiyat Ullah published a news in daily newspaper on February 15. According to the news, according to the contract of renting land from some local land owners in Matarbari, the foreign contractor company Techlin engaged in Matarbari power project is not paying the bill. After the news was published, a person named Moshiur Rahman called him and threatened. Later, through a person named Noor Hossain Sohail, claiming that the matter was a misunderstanding, took journalist Rakiyat to their employees' quarter and Moshiur Rahman started beating him up at one stage of abusive language. He kept him locked in that room for a long time and threatened to cut off Rakiyat's hands and feet and float him in the sea.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Abduction/Kidnapping
- Death threat
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
Case shared by FORUM-ASIA member Odhikar.
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 22.335766536310754
Longitude: 91.82979593082375
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 18 February 2024, media worker Rakiyat Ullah, was physically and verbally assaulted and threatened by Moshiur Rahman, an employee of a contractor company, for reporting that the company had not been paying rent to local landowners in Chattogram (Chittagong), Bangladesh.