Journalists have demanded that private TV station ATN Bangla's Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman be questioned in the homicide investigation of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
They said remarked recently in London that the couple victims to an extra-marital affair which were 'defamatory'.
They demanded that the ATN Bangla boss be interrogated following his claim that there is a video footage of the reason behind the murders.
The station's Senior Reporter Runi and Maasranga Television's News Editor Sagar were killed in their Rajabazar flat on Feb 11. As police failed to make any progress in the investigation, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were given the charge to investigate the murders.
The statement issued by the journalists' unions said, "Such remarks on ATN Bangla journalist Runi by the company's owner are inhumane, beyond courtesy and defamatory."
Presidents of two factions of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and Ruhul Amin Gazi, General Secretary of one faction Abdul Jalil Bhuyian, Acting General Secretary of the other faction M Abdullah, President of two factions of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Abdus Shahid and Omar Faruq, General Secretaries Muhammad Baker Hossain and Shaban Mahmud, National Press Club President Kamal Uddin Sabuj and General Secretary Syed Abdal Ahmad, Dhaka Reporters' Unity President Shakhawat Hossain Badshah and General Secretary Sazzad Alam Khan Tapu signed the statement.
The journalists' unions have been demonstrating demanding arrest of the killers of the couple.
They said remarked recently in London that the couple victims to an extra-marital affair which were 'defamatory'.
They demanded that the ATN Bangla boss be interrogated following his claim that there is a video footage of the reason behind the murders.
The station's Senior Reporter Runi and Maasranga Television's News Editor Sagar were killed in their Rajabazar flat on Feb 11. As police failed to make any progress in the investigation, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were given the charge to investigate the murders.
The statement issued by the journalists' unions said, "Such remarks on ATN Bangla journalist Runi by the company's owner are inhumane, beyond courtesy and defamatory."
Presidents of two factions of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and Ruhul Amin Gazi, General Secretary of one faction Abdul Jalil Bhuyian, Acting General Secretary of the other faction M Abdullah, President of two factions of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Abdus Shahid and Omar Faruq, General Secretaries Muhammad Baker Hossain and Shaban Mahmud, National Press Club President Kamal Uddin Sabuj and General Secretary Syed Abdal Ahmad, Dhaka Reporters' Unity President Shakhawat Hossain Badshah and General Secretary Sazzad Alam Khan Tapu signed the statement.
The journalists' unions have been demonstrating demanding arrest of the killers of the couple.
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