Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses its grave concern at the incident of torture of Tuhin Sanjid, a journalist of the daily Bhorer Dak.

According to newspaper sources, on May 10, 2012 journalist Tuhin Sanjid of the daily Bhorer Dak was picked up eye-folded in a white microbus from near Bangla Academy allegedly because of publishing a news regarding disappearance of Elias Ali. It is reported that after a while he has taken into a building. There, as he opened his eyes, he saw an officer in the uniform of RAB and that officer asked him about the source of that published news. Tuhin Sanjid was given electric shock and was threatend to be shot down in cross fire, as he refused to disclose the source. We think, such kind of torture and threatening on a journalist for publishing news is an incedent of violating the freedom of press. We strongly condemn this incident and express our grave concern .

We expect that the adiminstration will take proper action against the persons responsible after investigating the matter and play an effective role to protect freedom of press and human rights. In addition to that the concerned authority should also be cautious to prevent recurrence of such incident in furture.