Journalists in Pabna and Thakurgaon yesterday staged demonstrations protesting attack on their colleagues.

In Pabna, the journalists at a human chain demanded arrest of the main accused and his cohorts for attacking three journalists and a cameraperson on November 29.

Police arrested eight people in connection with the attack, but the key accused Shirhan Sharif Tomal,   Ishwardi upazila unit Jubo League president, could not be arrested even five days after the incident, our Pabna correspondent reports. Tomal is son of Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif.

Earlier, Tomal and 25 to 30 accomplices allegedly attacked journalists when they went to Ishwardi to cover preparations for the prime minister's visit to inaugurate the main construction work of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant on November 30.

Meanwhile, local journalists formed a human chain in Panchagarh town protesting attack on their colleagues in Debiganj municipality on November 27. 

Panchagarh Press Club organised the protest programme at Sher-e-Bangla Park, our Thakurgaon correspondent reports.

The journalists also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through Deputy Commissioner of Panchagarh Amal Krishna Mandal.

The human chain was followed by a discussion at the same venue. 

The speakers said some local journalists were at Debiganj municipality office on November 27 when the men of Upazila Parishad Chairman Hasnat Zaman Chowdhury, also upazila unit general secretary of Awami League, assaulted and confined them.

The journalists demanded arrest and punishment of the attackers.