RSF demands justice for Khulna journo
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has demanded justice for the attack on a TV reporter and his cameraman when they visited a construction site on January 5 in Khulna.
RSF also in a statement published on its website yesterday, called upon the authorities to arrest the attackers and investigate into the incident.
Ekattor TV's Khulna bureau chief, Rakib Uddin Pannu and his cameraman cam under attack on a site where a water treatment plant is being built by Chinese company. Pannu had reportedly gone to the site to do a story about the Bangladeshi government's contract with a Chinese company for the construction of a major water treatment plant.
The journalists were harassed and attacked by employees and workers of the site, who also damaged their camera, the statement reads.
Their assailants then asked a traffic police officer who was at the construction site to arrest Pannu. The policeman arrested and took him to police station.
Fellow journalists managed to get him released a few hours later.
"Arresting a reporter when he had just been the victim of an attack is grotesque," RSF's Asia-Pacific desk said in the statement. "We call on the local authorities to investigate this police blunder and to prosecute those responsible for this unacceptable attack," the statement further reads.
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