The Bangladeshi government must take swift action to protect all individuals exercising their freedom of expression in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, following last week’s murder of book publisher Faisar Arefin Dipan and attacks on three others. Dipan was found hacked to death on Saturday in his office shortly after news […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Bangladeshi authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into a banned Islamist group’s death threat against 24 people, including five journalists, and to take steps to ensure the safety of those threatened. The group, Ansarullah Bangla Team, made the threat in a letter issued yesterday that specifically targeted […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for a thorough and swift investigation into yesterday’s brutal murder of American-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka. Roy and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were leaving a book fair in the Bangladeshi capital late in the evening when they were attacked by unidentified men with machetes. Roy died of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed concern about the arrest of Bangladeshi editor Mahmudur Rahman. Rahman was arrested on Thursday, Apr. 11, on the premises of the Bengali-language pro-opposition newspaper Amar Desh, of which he is currently the acting editor. According to reports by AP, charges brought against Rahman include sedition, cyber-crimes as well as […]