Journalists have given the government a 72-hour ultimatum to arrest those who attacked some of their colleagues covering the ongoing popular movement demanding safe roads.
Otherwise, they will go for tougher programmes, the journalists said at a human chain at the SAARC fountain in Karwan Bazar of Dhaka city on Tuesday morning.
As for the arrest, they said, it would not be difficult for the government because there are video footages of the attacks.
Another human chain has, meanwhile, been formed in front of the National Press Club placin the same demand.
Hundreds of photojournalists, journalists and even freelancers took part in the 30-minute protest event that ended at 11:30am after starting at 11:00am. Bangladesh Photojournalist Association organised the event.
At least seven photojournalists were injured in attacks by unruly youths in the capital’s Jigatala and Science Laboratory areas on Sunday while taking snaps of an attack on protesting students, UNB reported.
The injured were identified as AM Ahad of international news agency the Associated Press (AP), Zawad of the Daily Janakantha, Palash of the Banik Barta, Rimon of US-based Zuma Press, Sharif of the Dainik Naya Diganta, freelancer Rahat and Enamul Hasan, a photography student of Pathsala South Asian Media Institute.
