Over a year after a mass uprising ousted the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration, Bangladeshi journalists continue to experience threats, attacks and even murders in retaliation for their reporting. Dozens of opposition journalists are also the subject of police investigations and discrimination in apparent reprisals against their work.
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This past October, Hindu journalist Trina Roy Chowdhury and her husband (Promithias Chowdhury) were targeted by Islamists after they exposed atrocities against Hindus. While her husband was assaulted, Trina received gang-rape threats. Rather than offering them protection, the police allegedly sided with the attackers.
The couple runs a news portal in Bangladesh called TheNewse.com. The attacks and threats against the journalists started after they posted on their website reports exposing targeted violence, forced conversions,
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