Journos' sit-in now on May 15
The journalists shifted their sit-in, scheduled for Sunday in front of the home ministry, to May 15 as Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, falls on that day.
It was decided at an emergency meeting, chaired by BFUJ President Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, at Jatiya Press Club yesterday.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), Jatiya Press Club and Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) leaders attended the meeting.
The meeting sources said the sit-in would be staged in front of the ministry at 11:00am on May 15 instead of May 6 and the next course of the journalists' movement will be announced from there to realise their demands, including arrest and punishment of the killers of journalist couple Sagar and Runi.
Besides, a joint meeting of executive committee members of BFUJ, DUJ, DRU, NPC and other journalists' organisations will be held at Jatiya Press Club on May 10, followed by a view exchange meeting of the editors of newspapers and the chiefs of private television stations at the same venue on May 13.
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