Death Anniversary of Shamsur Rahman
Police prevent journos from holding memorial meeting
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
The police did not allow journalists to hold a meeting in memory of slain journalist Shamsur Rahman at the IDEB auditorium in Jessore yesterday. The Jessore union of Journalists has organised the meeting on the occasion of the seventh death anniversary of the journalist but had to cancel it as the police prevented the union from holding the meeting. Shamsur Rahman, Jessore bureau chief of the daily Janakantha, was gunned down by extremists at his office on the night of July 16 in 2000. To mark his death anniversary, the journalists placed wreaths at his grave in the morning. Former president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association Dr Arefin Siddiqui, BFUJ President Manzurul Ahsan Bulbul, General Secretary Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Treasurer Ajmol Hossain Farazi, former BFUJ president Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and President of Khulna Press Club Makbul Hossain Mintoo were present to pay tribute to the late journalist. Later, they went to the house of Shamsur Rahman and talked to his wife Selina Akhter Lucky and other members of the family.
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