Attack (Bangladesh)

  • 1 Feb 2020
    Bangladesh: Journalists attacked during Dhaka City elections

    Country Bangladesh  State Dhaka  Violation Type Attack  Target Journalist

    Attacks on journalists and obstruction to reporting were documented in Bangladesh during the Dhaka North and South city elections on February 1

  • 22 Jul 2018
    Mahmudur Rahman

    Country Bangladesh  State Khulna  Violation Type Attack  Target Journalist

    Mahmudur Rahman, editor for Amar Desh Daily was brutally attacked by a mob of more than 100 supposed affiliates of the Bangladesh Chhatra league, the youth wing of the ruling Awami League. Rahman had been confined to the courthouse where he was facing defamation charges, despite having been granted bail, over fears of the mob violence which awaited him outside. When he finally left, he and his car were attacked; he then sought shelter in an advocate’s room where he was beaten. Fearing reprisals, he decided not to treat his injuries in a local hospital and flew to Dhaka. The case concerned supposed defamatory remarks Rahman had made about former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2017. The Amar Desh is considered an opposition-aligned paper.

  • 25 Jan 2018
    Nirananda Paul

    Country Bangladesh  State Sylhet  Violation Type Attack  Target Journalist

    Nirananda Paul, a video journalist with Jamuna TV, and Mamun Hasan, photojournalist with the Jugantor daily, were at the court in Sylhet to cover the bail decision on a local Awami League (AL) leader Liaquat Ali in a murder case. They were recording video footage and taking photos of Ali and 29 others while the accused were being taken to jail after the court declined to regularize the interim bail, when around 50 AL cadres attacked them.