Staff Reporter :
The leaders of journalists’ organisations on Saturday vowed to launch a united movement demanding the arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
They demanded resignation of the officials of the law enforcing agencies, who failed to discover the clue of the gruesome killing.
The BFUJ and the DUJ will observe the road blockade programme today (Sunday) in front of the National Press Club. They said this while addressing a protest rally in front of the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), marking the 5th death anniversary of the brutal killing of the journalists.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha presided over the programme while its General Secretary Mursalin Nomani moderated it.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) (one faction) President Shawkat Mahmud, former President Ruhul Amin Gazi, former General Secretary of National Press Club Syed Abdal Ahmed, BFUJ (another faction) Secretary General Omar Faruque, former Secretary General Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan and Finance Secretary Modushudan Mandol, Joint-Secretary of National Press Club Elias Khan, former Joint-Secretary of the National Press Club Quader Gani Chowdhury, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) President Saban Mahmud and General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury, former General Secretary of DUJ Quddus Afrad, BFUJ former General Secretaries Sazzad Alam Khan Topu, Elias Hossain, Razu Ahmed, BFUJ Organising Secretary Shahidul Islam, among others, addressed the programme.
The journalists demanded resignation of incumbent Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and criticise Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu for his recent remarks.
The BFUJ and the DUJ will also hold a grand protest rally and road blockade programme on March 11 in front of the National Press Club protesting killing and torture of journalists and exemplary punishment to the culprits across the country.
The leaders of the National Press Club, DRU, both factions of BFUJ and DUJ will sit with a view to taking next courses of movement to meet their demands on February 22.
BFUJ President Shawkat Mahmud stressed united movement to ensure punishment to the killers of the journalist couple.
“We launched a combined movement in 2012 just after the killing of Sagar-Runi. But it ended without any result. Now demand has been raised from all quarters to start united movement again. I hope that the killers of the journalist couple will be arrested and punished if we continue our joint movement,” he said.
Former President of BFUJ Ruhul Amin Gazi said, there is no politics in the demand. A united movement only can accelerate the progress of the investigation and punishment.
BFUJ (another faction) Secretary General Omar Faruque said, “We (journalists) are the citizens of the country. We have rights to get justice. We never fought for a country without journalists’ safety. The dissimilarities must be stopped and the killers of all journalists must be nabbed.”
DUJ President Saban Mahmud said, the then Home Minister Sahara Khatun betrayed with the journalists’ community as she assured to nabbed the killers of journalists Sagar-Runi within 48 hours. But she did not arrest them.
He called upon the journalists’ leaders to launch a united movement regardless of political ideologies in the interest of the journalists and rule of law in the country.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha said, announcement of a tougher movement will be delivered after the meeting on 22 February.
He promised of unabated movement until the killers of the journalist couple are punished.
DUJ General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury said, “We will block a road in front of the Jatiya Press Club on March 11 if action is not taken before deadline.”
Sagar, a News Editor of the private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were brutally killed in their West Rajabazar flat in the capital on February 11, 2012.
The leaders of journalists’ organisations on Saturday vowed to launch a united movement demanding the arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
They demanded resignation of the officials of the law enforcing agencies, who failed to discover the clue of the gruesome killing.
The BFUJ and the DUJ will observe the road blockade programme today (Sunday) in front of the National Press Club. They said this while addressing a protest rally in front of the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), marking the 5th death anniversary of the brutal killing of the journalists.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha presided over the programme while its General Secretary Mursalin Nomani moderated it.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) (one faction) President Shawkat Mahmud, former President Ruhul Amin Gazi, former General Secretary of National Press Club Syed Abdal Ahmed, BFUJ (another faction) Secretary General Omar Faruque, former Secretary General Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan and Finance Secretary Modushudan Mandol, Joint-Secretary of National Press Club Elias Khan, former Joint-Secretary of the National Press Club Quader Gani Chowdhury, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) President Saban Mahmud and General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury, former General Secretary of DUJ Quddus Afrad, BFUJ former General Secretaries Sazzad Alam Khan Topu, Elias Hossain, Razu Ahmed, BFUJ Organising Secretary Shahidul Islam, among others, addressed the programme.
The journalists demanded resignation of incumbent Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and criticise Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu for his recent remarks.
The BFUJ and the DUJ will also hold a grand protest rally and road blockade programme on March 11 in front of the National Press Club protesting killing and torture of journalists and exemplary punishment to the culprits across the country.
The leaders of the National Press Club, DRU, both factions of BFUJ and DUJ will sit with a view to taking next courses of movement to meet their demands on February 22.
BFUJ President Shawkat Mahmud stressed united movement to ensure punishment to the killers of the journalist couple.
“We launched a combined movement in 2012 just after the killing of Sagar-Runi. But it ended without any result. Now demand has been raised from all quarters to start united movement again. I hope that the killers of the journalist couple will be arrested and punished if we continue our joint movement,” he said.
Former President of BFUJ Ruhul Amin Gazi said, there is no politics in the demand. A united movement only can accelerate the progress of the investigation and punishment.
BFUJ (another faction) Secretary General Omar Faruque said, “We (journalists) are the citizens of the country. We have rights to get justice. We never fought for a country without journalists’ safety. The dissimilarities must be stopped and the killers of all journalists must be nabbed.”
DUJ President Saban Mahmud said, the then Home Minister Sahara Khatun betrayed with the journalists’ community as she assured to nabbed the killers of journalists Sagar-Runi within 48 hours. But she did not arrest them.
He called upon the journalists’ leaders to launch a united movement regardless of political ideologies in the interest of the journalists and rule of law in the country.
DRU President Shakhawat Hossain Badsha said, announcement of a tougher movement will be delivered after the meeting on 22 February.
He promised of unabated movement until the killers of the journalist couple are punished.
DUJ General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury said, “We will block a road in front of the Jatiya Press Club on March 11 if action is not taken before deadline.”
Sagar, a News Editor of the private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were brutally killed in their West Rajabazar flat in the capital on February 11, 2012.
