Woman Journalist Mobbed In Dhaka

Woman Journalist Mobbed In Dhaka

Kolkata:

A mob surrounded senior Bangladesh journalist Munni Saha in Dhaka final evening and accused her of spreading misinformation and “doing every part to make Bangladesh part of India”. Ms Saha was heckled as she saved saying, “This can be my nation”. Eventually, a police group got here and took her into custody.

According to experiences in Bangladesh media, Ms Saha was wished in a case linked to a pupil’s dying in the course of the anti-reservation protests within the neighbouring nation that led to its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Police stated Ms Saha was rescued from Dhaka’s Kawran Bazar space, the place a mob had surrounded her.

Rezaul Karim Mallik, a senior officer of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, instructed The Daily Star Newspaper, “People handed her over to the police. She suffered a panic assault. We have launched her after contemplating her well being situation and the truth that she is a lady journalist.” Ms Saha has been requested to hunt bail from courtroom and adjust to police summons sooner or later.

In a video that has now gone viral, Ms Saha is seen surrounded by a mob. A voice is heard accusing her of misguiding individuals relating to the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny that claimed 57 lives. “You are doing every part you may to make this nation part of India. The blood of scholars is in your arms,” the journalist is instructed as she nods in denial.

“How are you able to be a citizen of this nation and hurt this nation,” she is instructed. Ms Saha responds, “How have I harmed? This can be my nation.”

The 55-year-old journalist is the previous information head of Bengali channel ATN News. After the Sheikh Hasina administration was toppled, she and a number of other different journalists have been charged with crimes towards humanity.

The heckling of Ms Saha comes amid issues over the situation of minority Hindus in Bangladesh after the regime change. A Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was arrested in Dhaka final week after a Hindu group’s protest demanding authorized safety and a ministry for minority affairs. The Hindu priest, who was earlier related to ISKCON, faces a sedition case, allegedly for his remarks on the concentrating on of Hindus.

ISKCON has now stated that two extra monks, Adipurush Shyam Das and Ranganath Das Brahmachari, have been arrested after they met Chinmoy Krishna Das. The vice-president of ISKCON Kolkata additionally stated that rioters had vandalised the ISKCON centre in Bangladesh.

Following Hasina’s ouster, an interim authorities helmed by Grameen Bank founder and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has taken cost. Over the previous few months, a number of experiences of minority Hindus being focused in Bangladesh have emerged.

In the aftermath of the priest’s arrest, India expressed concern over the rise of “extremist rhetoric, rising incidents of violence and provocation” in Bangladesh.

The Ministry of External Affairs stated that India has persistently raised the difficulty of focused assaults on Hindus and different minorities with the Bangladesh authorities. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal has urged the interim authorities in Bangladesh to take steps to guard minorities.