Heartbreaking news surfaced from Dhaka as the warm city lost one of the active residents with the demise of journalist, author and a progressive Bangladeshi national Saleem Samad. The gentleman with enough issues to talk to anyone anywhere and anytime passed away on 22 February 2026. He died undergoing cancer treatment in Dhaka Medical College ...
Amid anti-India rhetoric, Bangladesh recently witnessed a turmoil following the demise of a young radical leader Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, and now gradually returning to normalcy, the south Asian nation prepares for its next general election scheduled for 12 February 2026. The highly sought after polls, as the sitting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina faced an ...
Geneva: The year 2025 emerged as the deadliest year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. According to the tally of the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), 161 media professionals were killed in 31 countries (179 in 2024). At least 60 journalists were killed in the Gaza Strip, almost all of them victims ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, urges the military regime of Myanmar to release all media professionals before the proposed multi-phase elections starting on 28 December. The forum also insisted on abolishing new election interference law which continues harassing scribes and social media users in the name of cracking ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, calls for new measures to combat impunity and its devastating effects on the occasion of ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists’, a United Nations-recognized day annually observed on 2 November. Since the beginning of 2025, at least 153 journalists and ...
Geneva, 16 October 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the mob attack on a number of media persons, engaged on duty, in Assam of far eastern India, while they were covering a protest demonstration in Baksa locality on 15 October. A section of agitators, who ...
Washington – United States President Donald Trump said Friday that Israeli captives held in Gaza are expected to be released on Monday as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. The exchange involves 20 living captives and the remains of 28 others, who will be handed over for approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the killing of another Pakistani journalist in Sindh province and demands justice along with adequate compensation to the bereaved family. According to local media outlets, Tufail Rind (40) was shot dead by armed assailants in Mirpur Mathelo locality on 8 ...
Geneva, 30 September 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the mysterious death of an Indian scribe based in Uttarakhand and demanded a fair probe into the circumstance that led to the untimely demise of Rajeev Pratap Singh. The body of Rajeev (36) was recovered from Joshiyara ...
Geneva: A global media safety watchdog has sounded the alarm over a spate of “mysterious” deaths of journalists in Bangladesh, urging the interim government in Dhaka to launch a credible investigation after two senior scribes were found dead in just ten days. The Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) issued its statement on Monday following disturbing ...
Geneva: Expressing shock and dismay over the killing of journalist Abdul Latif Baloch in front of his wife and children, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demanded a thorough probe into the incident of murder and bring the culprits to justice. Abdul Latif (55), who was associated with ‘Daily Intekhab’ ...
Guwahati: The Baloch community residing in India, while urging the Union government in New Delhi for extending support to their causes by raising the issue of Balochistan nationally and internationally, appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take initiative for a pragmatic discussion in the Parliament and push for a formal resolution recognizing (and supporting) ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while revealing that 55 journalists have been killed since 1 January 2025 around the world, demanded due action against the perpetrators. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the PEC stated that the auspicious day reminds everyone to uphold press freedom and ...
New Delhi: Bangladesh’s current interim government continues pursuing the return journey of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Dhaka so that she is compelled to face hundreds of legal cases, lodged in different locations of the south Asian nation, and finally delivered justice to the victims. The caretaker regime in Dhaka has seemingly maintained also ...
Guwahati: On the eve of Bangladeshi new year, the interim government chief Professor Muhammad Yunus called upon the people of the south Asian nation to work together for creating a discrimination-free Bangladesh, where every citizen is happy, peaceful and progressive. The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh having a population of 170 million and currently functioning ...
