Journos' hunger strike on Dec 23

Journalists will stage a mass hunger strike on December 23 in the capital demanding trial of killers of the journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
The six-hour hunger strike will start at 10:00 am in front of the Jatiya Press Club, announced Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ).
The announcement was made at a gathering of journalists yesterday at the press club. Sobhan said their next programme will be declared on that day.
Sagar, news editor at the private TV station Maasranga and his wife Runi, senior reporter at ATN Bangla, were killed in the early hours of February 11 at their apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.
On October 9, the home minister named seven suspects in the brutal murder of the journalist couple.
“As four of the arrestees are professional killers, we want to know who hired them and what their motive was,” Iqbal Sobhan said.
Ruhul Amin Gazi, president of another faction of BFUJ, said no journalist will be safe if the killers of Sagar-Runi are not punished.
“You cannot escape by trying another Joj Miah ploy,” Gazi said, indirectly referring to the home minister.
Members from journalists' organisations including BFUJ, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), Jatiya Press Club and Dhaka Reporters Unity participated in the rally.