BFUJ-Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Saturday strongly protested the heinous killing of Jamalpur journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim.
In a protest rally organized in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka, the leaders of BFUJ and DUJ demanded exemplary punishment for the killers of Nadim as soon as possible.
Presided over by BFUJ president Omar Faruque, the rally was addressed by eminent journalist and former president of BFUJ Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul as chief guest.
National Press Club (NPC) President Farida Yasmin, BFUJ Secretary General Dip Azad, Treasurer Khairuzzaman Kamal, DUJ General Secretary Akter Hossain, journalist leaders Quddus Afrad, Nurul Islam Hasib, M A Quddus, Manik Lal Ghose, Zihadur Rahman Zihad, Ashraful Islam, Nazmul Huq Saikat and Khairul Alam, among others, addressed the rally.
Expressing satisfaction over the arrest of Sadhurpara UP chairman Mahmudul Alam Babu, the suspected mastermind of the killing, Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul urged the Awami League central leaders to sack him (Babu) permanently from the party.
He also urged the owners of the organizations, for those Nadim used to work, to stand by the side of the bereaved family.
NPC president Farida Yasmin thanked BFUJ and DUJ for organizing the protest rally and called upon the government to ensure justice to the family as soon as possible.
Dip Azad announced some programmes to be held if not the demands are fulfilled while BFUJ president Omar Faruque alleged that the journalist community is being deprived of justice for a long time.
After 2001, journalists Manik Saha, Humayun Kabir Balu, Dipankar Chakraborty and Gautam Das, among others, were brutally killed. But the families of those journalists are yet to get justice, he added.
