Bangladesh: Journalists hold demonstrations, demand release of female reporter
By Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Hundreds of journalists held a human chain and organized demonstrations in Bangladeshi Capital Dhaka, demanding the immediate release of a female journalist, who was reportedly harassed and arrested from the Country’s Secretariat on Monday during her attempts to do an investigating report on corruption in the Health Ministry.
Journalist Rozina Islam, a senior crime reporter of the Country’s leading daily newspaper the Prothom Alo, was held by the government officials and then handed over to police in charge of illegally “collect sensitive government documents and taking photos of them” at the Health Ministry Monday evening.