Newsmen protest assault on colleague in Barisal
Barisal journalists staged a demonstration in the city yesterday protesting assault on one of their colleagues by a ruling party backed transport union leader and his men in the morning.
Kamal Sardar, joint secretary of Awami League backed District Road Transport Union, and his supporters swooped on Kazi Shamim, special correspondent of local daily Ajker Barta and former district correspondent of daily Janakantha, at C&B Road at around 11:30am.
Locals said Kamal and his men intercepted Shamim in the area near his residence and locked in an altercation with him over publishing reports against him (Kamal) in the local daily recently.
At one stage, they manhandled Shamim. Hearing the news, leaders of Barisal Reporters Unity (BRU) rushed to the spot, rescued Shamim and took him to BRU office.
Local journalists later held a rally in front of the Ashwani Kumar Hall demanding immediate arrest of Kamal and his men for assaulting Shamim. They also protested recent attacks on journalists at different places of the country and demanded immediate arrest and punishment of the attackers.
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