BANGLADESH NEWS
Journalists of different media houses staged a sit-in before the Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Sunday to protest against a police assault on three photojournalists in the capital on the previous day.
Members of Photojournalists Association, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) started the programme around 11:00am, blocking the busy street stretching from Paltan to the High Court.
Their agitation continued for two and a half hours.
The journalist leaders demanded compensation for Khaled Sarkar, Sajid Hossain and Zahidul Karim of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, who faced the police assault on Saturday while taking shots of a demonstration staged by Dhaka Women Polytechnic Institute students.
The agitating journalists also demanded the law enforcers to record a case as officials of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on Saturday refused lodging any case against police in connection with the police assault.
They also demanded proper investigation into the incident and exemplary punishment of the guilty.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday suspended nine policemen and closed Assistant Commissioner of Tejgaon Division Shahidul Islam to the DMP headquarters after policemen assaulted the three on-duty photojournalists at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
The injured photojournalists were rushed to Pangu Hospital in the capital.
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