DHAKA NEWS
Journalists across the country will observe one-hour work abstention on February 27 demanding immediate arrest and trial to killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
The work abstention programme will continue from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
The journalist organisations will also observe a six-hour token hunger strike from 10:00am on March 1 if the perpetrators are not put behind bars by February 27.
Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalist (BFUJ), announced the agitation programme from a rally held in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Wednesday.
The rally was organised as part of their countrywide demonstration demanding immediate arrest and trial to killers of the journalist couple.
Several journalists’ associations including BFUJ, JPC, Dhaka Reporters' Unity and Dhaka Union of Journalists held the protest rally and procession for two hours from 11:30am stretching on the area from JPC to Paltan intersection in the capital.
Sagar, news editor of private television channel Maasranga, and his wife Runi, a senior reporter of another private television channel ATN Bangla, were killed in the early hours on February 11 at their rented flat in the city's West Rajabazar.
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