UNB, Dhaka :
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately halt widespread attacks on journalists covering the ongoing student protests in Dhaka and release photographer Shahidul Alam from jail.
“Authorities should immediately release Shahidul Alam without charge, as well as take swift steps to halt broader
attacks on the press by holding the perpetrators accountable,” said Steven Butler, CPJ’s Asia programme coordinator in Washington D.C.
CPJ says it has called and sent an email to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner but did not receive an immediate response.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately halt widespread attacks on journalists covering the ongoing student protests in Dhaka and release photographer Shahidul Alam from jail.
“Authorities should immediately release Shahidul Alam without charge, as well as take swift steps to halt broader
attacks on the press by holding the perpetrators accountable,” said Steven Butler, CPJ’s Asia programme coordinator in Washington D.C.
CPJ says it has called and sent an email to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner but did not receive an immediate response.
