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| Photo-journalist Shahidul Alam |
United States's influential Time magazine has chosen 'Persons of the Year' as a flamboyant journalist, including the recently released Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam.
In this list, there are two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, convicted of Rohingya repression in Myanmar and most talked Saudi Arabian Jamal Khashoggi (journalist, dissident, author, columnist for the Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel), who was assassinated in Turkey by some Saudi agents on orders that came from the highest levels. Jamal khashoggi revives this way.
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| Jamal Khashoggi |
Shahidul Alam, who has been accused of interviewing Al Jazeera TV for criticizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the student movement in August, demanded safe road to Bangladesh. Later, Shahidul Alam has been remanded for seven days in a case filed under the ICT Act's Section 57(2) and kept in jail for more than a hundred days. He is currently free on bail. If convicted, he can face imprisonment for a maximum of 14 years. Still, he is thinking of holding professional duty in Bangladesh elections on 30 December. Shahidul Alam told Time that the decision was taken from the fear of fraud and vote rigging in the election.
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| Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo |
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