Prothom Alo editor gets death threat
An anonymous caller on Tuesday threatened to kill a senior reporter of the Bangla daily Prothom Alo and its Editor Matiur Rahman on February 20 for reporting on politics and terrorism in Khulna.
Three reports on politics and terrorism in Khulna were published in the daily on October 4 and October 6.
Calling on the personal mobile phone of the reporter, Iftekhar Mahmud, at 3:59pm, the person said, “You and your Editor Matiur Rahman have a court appearance in Khulna on the coming 20th, right? Come prepared to die that day.
“You people have published a lot of false reports against my leader. You people will face dire consequences. We will meet on the 20th in Khulna. We are prepared to tackle you people. We have tolerated a lot, we will no more do so.”
Iftekhar Mahmud filed a general diary with Tejgaon Police Station yesterday stating that he and his editor had been receiving such calls since the reports were published.
Iftekhar said he had filed the GD as they were feeling insecure since Tuesday's call.
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