Shawdesh Desk:

Leaders and activists Bangladesh Chhatra League of different hall units of Dhaka University on Saturday blocked the Shahbagh  intersection in Dhaka for about two hours demanding arrest of Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman.

The BCL activists under the banner of ‘general students’ began the blockade at about 10:20am and continued it till 12:30pm.

Jaman Sami, a student of 2017-18 academic session of Law department and also organising secretary of Sir AF Rahman hall unit of Chhatra League, said, ‘ Today we came here to protest yellow journalism practiced by Prothom Alo. Motiur Rahman, the editor of the daily, has been accused of child exploitation, killing a student of Dhaka Residential Model College and so more.’

‘We, the conscious students of Dhaka University, are protesting this heinous activities of Prothom Alo. For doing such heinous acts, Motiur Rahman have to be arrested soon,’ he added.

On March 26, Prothom Alo published a ‘ graphic card’ with a photograph and a quotation of a day labourer Zakir Hossain for sharing a news report on Facebook. However, the national daily later removed the post from online due to a discrepancy regarding the photo that was used with the news.

Later, the report was republished with necessary amendments and a note below the report regarding the correction.

Later, Shamsuzzaman Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent, who wrote the report was sued in a separate cases under the DSA on Wednesday afternoon, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Jahangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.

Editor of the country’s leading daily Motiur Rahman was also sued under the Digital Security Act.