Journalist Burhan Uddin Muzakkir, who was shot during a clash between two factions of the Awami League at Chaprashirhat Bazar in Companiganj, Noakhali, died on February 21, 2021. The previous
On October 11, 2020, around 8:30 p.m., journalist Ilias Hossain was hacked to death while returning home from Jiodhara Bazar in Bandar area of Narayanganj. That same night, police arrested
In Dhamrai, Dhaka, Julhas Uddin, a local correspondent for Bijoy TV, was stabbed and hacked to death. The incident took place around 3 p.m. on September 3, 2020, at the
On the evening of March 10, 2020, photojournalist and editor of Pakkhakal magazine, Shafiqul Islam Kajol, went missing. A day earlier, on March 9, Magura-1 MP Saifuzzaman Shikhor had filed
On August 28, 2018, around 10 p.m., Subarna Akter Nodi, Pabna correspondent of private television channel Ananda TV, was brutally hacked to death by several assailants in front of Adarsha
On October 10, 2017, journalist Utpal Das went missing from the area near the Stock Exchange building in Motijheel. After being missing for 2 months and 10 days, he was
On February 2, 2017, during clashes between two factions of the Awami League in Shahjadpur, Samakal newspaper’s Shahjadpur correspondent Shimul was shot while on professional duty. He died the following
On May 21, 2014, Sadarul Nipul, a journalist for the Chuadanga-based daily Mathabhanga, was murdered after publishing reports on local drug dealers. Railway police recovered his mutilated body in pieces
Shah Alam Sagar, a resident of Dhaka’s Rayerbag area, was a reporter for a weekly newspaper named Oporadh Daman (Crime Control). On February 2, 2014, his body was recovered from
On May 6, 2013, in the early hours of the morning, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), acting on government orders, shut down Islamic TV. A team from the Detective