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Sagar-Runi Murder

Journalists Announce Agitation

Staff Correspondent
The journalist community yesterday announced one-hour work abstention for Monday to press home their demand for immediate arrest and trial of the killer(s) of journalist couple Sagar and Runi.
They also declared to observe a six-hour token hunger strike from 10:00am on March 1, if the culprits are not apprehended by then.
Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, president of Federal Union of Journalist (BFUJ), announced the programmes at a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
"We, journalists of different mass media including newspaper, television, news agencies and radio, will observe token work abstention from 12:00pm to 1:00pm across the country and wear black badges on February 27,” he said, adding that the hunger strike will also be observed countrywide, including at the national press club.
He also demanded effective measures to end all sorts of repression on journalists
and remove all that impedes the freedom of press.
Addressing the demonstration rally, leaders of different journalist bodies threatened of tougher movement if their demand for immediate arrest of the killer(s) is not fulfilled by this time.
They criticised the government and law enforcement agencies for not being able to identify the killer(s) even 11 days after the murder.
The government's approach indicates that the country's rule of law is under threat, said national press club president Kamaluddin Sabuj.
BFUJ president Ruhul Amin Gazi, BFUJ secretary general Abdul Jalil Bhuyian, DUJ presidents Omar Faruque and Abdus
Shaheed, Dhaka Journalists' Union general secretaries Muhammad Baker Hossain and Shaban Mahmud, National press club general secretary Syed Abdal Ahmed, Dhaka Reporters' Unity president Shakhawat Hossain Badsha and its general secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu, among others, also spoke at the rally.
They urged the journalist community to be united to face any challenges and demanded trial of all the previous killings of journalists.
Veteran journalist Nirmol Sen was also present at the rally while senior journalist ABM Musa expressed his solidarity over the phone from hospital bed.
Yesterday's rally was organised as part of country-
wide demonstration announced on February 18 after a meeting of several journalist organisations.
After the rally several hundred journalists brought out a procession from the press club to Paltan intersection.
Meanwhile, Jahangirnagar University Journalists' Association yesterday formed human chain on the campus demanding arrest and trial of the killers of Sagar and Runi.
Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private television channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of another private television channel ATN Bangla, were killed in the early hours of February 11 at their rented flat in the city's West Rajabazar.