Demand to stop journalist torture and enact a journalist protection law – Sohag Arefin

Journalists are the most persecuted today, incidents of journalist torture are happening today, there is no remedy, there is no freedom, said Sohag Arefin, the central organizing secretary of the Bangladesh Mofusal Journalists Union, at this time he strongly demanded that journalist torture should be stopped immediately and a journalist protection law should be enacted.

On Saturday (March 22), the afternoon of 21 Ramadan, the central organizing secretary of the “BMUJ” Chittagong district branch said these things at the Iftar and Doa Mahfil program of the “BMUJ” Chittagong district branch with the orphan children of the madrasa at the BMUJ office in the Faizlekh area of ​​Khulshi, Chittagong city.
Bangladesh Mofusal Journalists Union Chittagong District Branch President Shahidul Islam presided over the event, and executive member Zahirul Islam Bablu moderated it.

The chief guest was prominent writer and journalist Kamal Parvez, member of Chittagong Press Club.
The main speaker was Central Organizing Secretary Sohag Arefin. Also present as special guests were Hasan Al Mamun, publisher and editor of Kaler Pratichha, Nurul Afsar Touhid, advisory editor of the daily Swadhin Sangbad, co-editor Belal Ahmed, APP Abu Bakkar Siddique, Additional District and Sessions Judge Court, Antar Rubel, organizing secretary of CRA, Mizan Ullah Samarkandi, president of the Journalist Development Council Chittagong, Humayun Kabir Rabbi, general secretary of BMUJ Chittagong district branch, Momin Ullah, journalist leaders Shafiqul Islam, Shamsul Alam Rana, journalist leaders Nasir Uddin Liton, vice-president of BMUJ Chittagong district branch, Rumen Chowdhury, Mazharul Islam Rana, organizing secretary Murad Hasan Biplob, Mosharraf Hossain Masud, Shahin Alam, Md. Farhad, Shahadat Murad Sohel, Rajib, Gias Uddin Liton, and many others.

In his speech as the chief guest at the event, Kamal Parvez said that today there is a great lack of unity among journalists in this great profession. We have to put an end to this and build a wall of unity among ourselves. Today, journalists are being tortured and oppressed in every district, region and capital. Protesting will not do. If necessary, journalists will have to protest the torture through a movement on the streets. Therefore, there is no alternative to unity, he said.
Qari Maulana Hafez Mohammad Shahidul Islam, a teacher of Nooriya Madrasa Complex, led the prayers and supplications at the event. 100 students of the said madrasa participated in the Iftar Mahfil organized by the event.