Bangladesh arrests journalist Rozina Islam known for unearthing graft
The Hindu
Rozina Islam on Tuesday was produced before a court in Dhaka where police sought that she be remanded to their custody for five days to be interrogated
Police in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested a journalist known for her strong reporting against official corruption in the South Asian country where journalists are often threatened with dire consequences for their professional work. Rozina Islam, a senior reporter with the country’s leading Bengali-language Prothom Alo daily newspaper, was confined for more than five hours till late Monday in a room of a Personal Assistant of the Secretary of the Ministry of Health, said her younger sister Sabina Parvin. A Secretary is the top bureaucrat of a Ministry, and the room was inside the Bangladesh Secretariat, the downtown Dhaka premises where almost all government Ministries are located.More Related News
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