{"id":1601,"date":"2020-10-13T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2020-10-21T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:08:33","slug":"saarc-journalist-forum-condemns-murder-of-journalist-of-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"SAARC Journalist Forum condemns murder of journalist of Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAARC Journalist Forum, SJF condemns murder of journalist in Narayanganj and calls on Bangladesh government to conduct proper investigation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1604\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1604\" src=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-360x504.jpg 360w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330-750x1046.jpg 750w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201013_082330.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statement released by SJF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SJF condemned the incident by releasing press statement and said, &#8220;Narayanganj district Bondor Upazila of Bangladesh a journalist named Ilias Hossain (45) was hacked to death by miscreants. Concerns have been expressed by the SAARC Journalist Forum over the incident. SJF condemned the killing of the journalist and called on the Bangladesh government to conduct a proper investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SJF further says Bondor Police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Fakhruddin Bhuiyan confirmed the incident at the port around 8pm on Sunday (October 11). The deceased was identified as Ilias Hossain, a resident of Jiodhara area of \u200b\u200bthe Bondor. He was working as a correspondent for the local daily Vijay. Police suspect that the killings may have been caused by previous hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that such incidents will not happen again in Bangladesh. The government will continue to work for the protection of journalists. I urge the Bangladesh government to allow Bangladeshi journalists to work independently,&#8221; said in statement released by Md Abdur Rahman\u00a0 Secretary General of SJF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAARC Journalist Forum, SJF condemns murder of journalist in Narayanganj and calls on Bangladesh government to conduct proper investigation. SJF condemned the incident by releasing press statement and said, &#8220;Narayanganj district Bondor Upazila of Bangladesh a journalist named Ilias Hossain (45) was hacked to death by miscreants. Concerns have been expressed by the SAARC Journalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,78,378,30,377,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-entertainment","category-international","category-latest-news","category-politics","category-south-asia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-police-line-killed-dead-body-1553756770943-1585044474470.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}