Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation (BHRF), a human rights organisation, has expressed concern over the attack, abduction at gunpoint, illegal detention and attempted murder of The Business Standard's Chattogram correspondent Abu Azad. He was subjected to the assault while working on a report concerning 120 illegal environmentally destructive brick kilns under Rangunia police
A journalist of The Business Standard newspaper was beaten up by a local union parishad (UP) member when he went to collect information on illegal brick kilns in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram yesterday.