{"id":2697,"date":"2014-04-20T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:39:56","slug":"ask-condemn-violence-journalists-press-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2014\/04\/20\/ask-condemn-violence-journalists-press-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK Condemn Violence Against Journalists  &#8211; Press Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern and strongly condemns the incident on assaulting six Journalists of the private television channel-Ekushey Television by the Interns of Dhaka Mitford Hospital.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It has been reported by different media that reporters as well as videographers of Ekushey television went to Dhaka Mitford Hospital on 19 April 2014 to cover a program. Later they were attacked and beaten; their cameras were broken by the interns of the hospital. The Journalists were also confined for several hours and was freed after a negotiation between the hospital and television channel authorities. Later on, the injured journalists received primary treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We have been observing that these kinds of attacks as well as threats on Journalists at different places of the country have taken an increasing toll in recent times. <b>ASK expresses grave concern over the situation of media personnel being attacked. Measures to stop recurrence of such incidents should be taken without any delay. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>We urge that the concerned authority will pay sincere attention to deal with this issue and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Medical Interns assaulted six journalists of Ekushey Television at Mitford Hospital in Dhaka on 19th April 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com\/2014\/04\/19\/29789\">[See News Story]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interns broke the cameras and attacked the journalists in the morning when they went to the hospital to collect information and footage of various irregularities for a crime-based programme titled \u2018Ekushey-er Chokh\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Press_20.4.2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2698\" alt=\"Press_20.4.2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Press_20.4.2014.jpg\" width=\"1148\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Press_20.4.2014.jpg 1148w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Press_20.4.2014-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Press_20.4.2014-600x884.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1148px) 100vw, 1148px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern and strongly condemns the incident on assaulting six Journalists of the private television channel-Ekushey Television by the Interns of Dhaka Mitford Hospital&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalist-harassment","category-press-statement","category-slider"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}