One year after Sagor and Runi Murdered.

Journalists Call for 24 hours Strike 

By Anwar Hossain; Journalists of all print, electronic and online media will go on a 24-hour strike from 6:00am on March 11 demanding trials for the killing of all journalists including Sagor-Runi, safety for the news media people and a free press in the country. President of Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury announced the programme from a grand rally of journalists held in front of the National Press Club on Monday.

The journalist community will also observe a hunger strike on the National Press Club premises on the same day. Family members of the slain journalists including Sagor Sarwar, Meherun Runi and Balu will also join the journalists in their hunger strike, Chowdhury said.

Press Freedom: Bangladesh Government Model!

Government is getting mad. And it is a common syndrome for all out going government of Bangladesh. They always become angry on media during the last year of their term. At-least last 20 years history says that.

Same happens for this government. The daily Sangram office was raided by Detective Branch.

Referring to the news agency UNB the Daily Star reports that journalist leaders yesterday deplored a police raid on the daily Sangram office in the capital's Moghbazar.

Journalists wounded in newsroom attack in Bangladesh

CPJ New York, May 29, 2012; The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Monday night's attack on the offices of an Internet news outlet in Dhaka in which at least nine journalists were wounded.

A group of at least 15 unidentified men, all carrying sharp objects including machetes, broke into the newsroom of bdnews24.com, a local media outlet that presents news in both Bangla and English, news reports said. The men attacked and stabbed journalists and other staff members, and vandalized the staff's vehicles in the parking lot, the website reported.

Abdur Rahim Harmacchi, a senior reporter at the news site who was slightly injured in the attack, told Agence France-Presse that after the men entered the office, "they started hacking some of our colleagues on the office's ground floor."