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Azad regrets cop actions

CPJ concerned about attacks on journos

Staff Correspondent
Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad yesterday regretted the incidents of police assault on journalists and asked the home ministry to investigate the matter and aptly punish the perpetrators. Azad spoke to the reporters yesterday following a programme at BIAM auditorium in the capital jointly organised by the information ministry and Unicef Bangladesh.
“The home ministry should investigate into the incidents,” he said.
When asked about the advice given to the journalists by State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque TUku, the information minister said it was his (Tuku's) personalopinion.
Tuku on Tuesday advised journalists to keep a “safe distance” from police while collecting news.
Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemned the attack on the office of bdnews24.com on Monday, terming Bangladesh as one of the world's worst nations in combating violence against press.
Asia Programme Coordinator of CPJ Bob Dietz, said "We are outraged that men with machetes could storm into the offices of a newsroom and attack journalists".
"We call on the authorities to launch a thorough investigation into the attack
and determine the masterminds of this crime," Dietz said in a statement on CPJ's website.
The website also mentioned, citing its research that at least 12 journalists have died in Bangladesh since 1992.
CPJ, an independent, non-profit organisation, was founded in 1981.
On May 28, miscreants stormed into the office of online news portal bdnews24.com at Mohakhali and stabbed two journalists and assaulted several others.
Police arrested three of the alleged perpetrators on the following day from the capital's Mohakhali area.
The arrestees are Jahidul Islam Sourov, 19, Elias Master Sumon, 22, and Mir Hossain, 26.
A Dhaka court placed those three on a four-day remand yesterday in connection with a case filed for attacking journalists of bdnews24.com.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Erfan Ullah passed the order after SubInspector Imdadul Islam Taib, also the investigation officer (10) of the case, produced them before the court with a ten-day remand prayer.
In the forwarding report, the 10 said that the accused were directly involved with the incident and needed to be remanded to find out vital clues about the incident.
On the other hand, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), Jatiya Press Club, and Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), yesterday condemned the police attack on the journalist while performing their duties on the very premises of Dhaka magistrate's court.
Earlier on Saturday, policemen assaulted three on-duty photojournalists of Prothom Alo while they were taking shots of a demonstration staged by students of Dhaka Women Polytechnic Institute at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.
In a joint statement, they said the incident of torture and attack on the journalists is increasing day-by-day, and demanded investigation in those incidents and exemplary punishment to the policemen responsible.
They also protested against Tuku's "advice".
Progressive Art and Mass Media Workers' Forum demanded the state minister to withdraw his “irresponsible comment”, a press release said.