STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Journalists boycotted a press conference of National Citizen Party leaders Akhter Hossen and Tasnim Jara at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday morning, accusing NCP activists of misbehaving with them.

The incident took place around 9:45am in front of the VIP gate.

A journalist, who witnessed the altercation and claimed he was among those mistreated, told The Daily Star, “The NCP activists were shouting ‘Inqilab zindabad’ during the media briefing by Humayun Kabir, foreign affairs adviser to BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman. Because of the shouting, we couldn’t hear Kabir properly. When one of us asked them to stop, they got louder. Later,

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