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Killed
February 19
Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Neel Sagar, KILLED
Police fatally shot Quamruzzaman, a reporter for the weekly newspaper Neel Sagar, while he was covering their crackdown on a violent protest against election results in the northern town of Nilphamari. According to several reports, police officers beat and kicked the journalist after having shot him. Although they initially refused to acknowledge his death, authorities later handed over Quamruzzaman's body to relatives. CPJ wrote a letter to Bangladesh authorities, urging them to launch an investigation and prosecute those responsible for the murder.
June 19
S.M. Alauddin, Ogrodoot, KILLED
Masked gunmen shot Alauddin, editor of the weekly Ogrodoot and a former member of Parliament for the governing Awami League, in Satkhira, where Ogrodoot is published. The unidentified assailants entered the newspaper's office, just a few yards from the main police station in Satkhira, and shot Alauddin while he was watching the nightly news on television. Other journalists and political activists who were there at the time of the attack rushed him to a local hospital, but he died shortly afterward. Police told local journalists that the murder stemmed from a longstanding political feud, but they failed to provide further details.
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