Bijoyanagar (Brahmanbaria) Correspondent :Â
A human chain was organized by all levels of journalist society of Bijoynagar upazila to protest the false and harassing case against 6 journalists including daily Jugantar representative, president of Bijoynagar upazila press club, due to the publication of news entitled “Journalists jailed due to police alienation”.
In this false and harassing case, a journalist named Yasin Mahmud was proved to be false and intentional by becoming defendant no. 7 despite staying outside the country for 6 months.
On October 25, at 4 pm on Friday, a human chain was organized in the upazila premises demanding the withdrawal of the false case and proper trial of the real culprits.
Bijoynagar Upazila Press Club President SM Kamrul Hasan Shanto, Joint General Secretary Hira Ahmed Zakir, Office Secretary Shahnewaz Shah, Treasurer Kefaitul Bhuiya, Former Treasurer Mohammad Habib, Publicity and Publication Secretary Mohiuddin Rubel, Education and Library Affairs Secretary Palash Kumar Das were present. , senior journalist Mizanur Rahman, Md. Kamrul Alam Sohail, Md. Jahangir Alam, Shamim Usman Gani, Chanaul Haque and various individuals.
President of Bijoynagar Upazila Press Club, representative of Dainik Yugantar, SM Kamrul Hasan Shanto, the defendant in the false case, said that a false, fictitious and defamatory case was filed in the name of 6 journalists on the advice of some miscreants after publishing the news by following all the rules and regulations of news publication. is filed.
Which is sad, reprehensible and against the principles of free media. I demand that the real culprits be given the highest trial through the legal process by withdrawing the case quickly.
