Bangladesh, Sylhet

  • 5 May 2020
    Bangladesh: Editor of Haorancholer Katha and district correspondent of SATV, Mohammad Mahtab Uddin Talukder, was arrested

    Country Bangladesh  State Sylhet  Violation Type Arrest/Detainment  Target General Public

    On May 5, editor of Haorancholer Katha and district correspondent of SATV, Mohammad Mahtab Uddin Talukder, was arrested at his residence over his Facebook post that allegedly spread false information about Member of Parliament (MP), Mouzzam Hossain Ratan.

  • 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.

  • 12 May 2015
    Ananta Bijoy Das

    Country Bangladesh  State Sylhet  Violation Type Killing  Target Journalist

    Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by an armed group near his home in Sylhet in north-eastern Bangladesh. Das, who worked at a local bank, was attacked by four men with machetes as he walked to work. According to reports, the group chased Das, attacking his head and body with the machetes. He was rushed to hospital but died upon arrival. Das was a well-known atheist blogger in Bangladesh, who regularly wrote for Mukto-Mona (free mind) blog, run by US-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy who was brutally murdered in a similar attack in March in Dhaka. In his writings, Das was critical of fundamentalism and the attack on secular thinkers, as well as championing science.