Committee to Protect Journalists: Bangladeshi Court Orders 3-Day Detention of Editor Abul Asad
December 16, 2019
December 16, 2019
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release editor Abul Asad and must protect news outlets so they can report freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On December 13, police in Dhaka, the capital, arrested Asad, editor of the Bengali-language newspaper The Daily Sangram, after the paper published an article calling Abdul Quader Molla, an opposition figure executed in 20 . . .
Bangladeshi authorities should immediately release editor Abul Asad and must protect news outlets so they can report freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On December 13, police in Dhaka, the capital, arrested Asad, editor of the Bengali-language newspaper The Daily Sangram, after the paper published an article calling Abdul Quader Molla, an opposition figure executed in 20 . . .