BANGLADESH NEWS
Dhaka Union of Journalists has declared ATN Bangla Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman and eleven journalists persona non grata for manipulating news and attacking a DUJ leader at a human chain.
The journalists are – Za E Mamun, head of news of ATN Bangla; its special correspondents Shawkat Milton, Keramat Ullah Biplob, Manash Ghosh, Nadira Kiran and Mahmudur Rahman, senior reporter SM Babu, staff reporters Minhajur Rahman Rahat, Mahfuz Rahman Mishu and Mainul Ahsan, and Shamim Ahmad of Bangle daily Bhorer Kagaj.
DUJ leaders took the decision in its executive committee meeting held at its office on Sunday, said a DUJ statement on Monday.
Terming Mahfuzur Rahman 'enemy of the mass media', the union leaders demanded immediate arrest of him for inspiring the attack, destroying journalists' unity, practicing yellow journalism and attempting to diverting the killing of journalist couple Sagar and Runi.
The attack is a conspiracy to foil the trial of killers of Sagar-Runi and to breach the unity of journalists, they viewed.
On June 24, Jahangir Alam Prodhan, organising secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists, came under attack after he had called for arrest of Mahfuzur Rahman at the human chain organised to demand the arrests of the killers of Sagar and Runi.
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