The Committee to Provide protection to Journalists (CPJ) has known as for a swift investigation into the threats of violence against the employees of Prothom Alo and The Day-to-day Smartly-known particular person newspapers.
In a put up on X nowadays (26 November), the CPJ additionally demanded a probe into the vandalisation of the Prothom Alo space of commercial in Rajshahi the earlier day.
“Whereas calm verbalize ought to be stable, journalists must now now not face violence and intimidation for his or her work,” reads the put up.
The say got right here against the backdrop of 5 of us being detained on 24 November after the police removed protesters who were attempting to withhold a mass feast in entrance of the Bangla day-to-day Prothom Alo’s space of commercial within the capital’s Karwan Bazar problem.
A community of of us, comprising lecturers and college students of various Islamic institutes, had gathered in entrance of the space of commercial within the afternoon to verbalize what they known as the newspaper leaning in opposition to Indian hegemony.
Earlier, a verbalize programme was once held on Thursday under the the same banner.
The next day, a verbalize over a the same accusation was once held in entrance of English newspaper The Day-to-day Smartly-known particular person’s space of commercial.
There it was once announced that cows would be slaughtered and a feast would be held in entrance of both the newspapers’ locations of work.
