Bangladesh: media worker beaten for reporting ballot stuffing, personal items taken
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Jan 7, 2024
- Event Description
At around 4:00pm, a group of 20 to 30 men surrounded and assaulted Saif Bin Ayub, a sub-editor for the Daily Kalbela newspaper, and took his laptop, phone, other personal items while he was photographing alleged ballot stuffing by Awami League supporters inside a polling center in Dhaka, the journalist told CPJ.
The men pushed Bin Ayub against a wall and punched him, kicked him in the abdomen, and scratched him while forcibly removing his press identification card from around his neck. The perpetrators then dragged him out of the building as he requested help from police present at the scene, the journalist said.
Officers did not intervene and the beating continued outside for around 15 minutes, the journalist said, adding that he received his phone and broken laptop back later that day but not his wallet, wristwatch and other items, the CPJ report said.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 23.782615112449637
Longitude: 90.38498684399356
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 7 January 2024, media worker Saif Bin Ayub of Daily Kalbela newspaper, was attacked by political party supporters and had his personal belongings broken and taken while reporting alleged ballot stuffing in Dhaka, Bangladesh.