The female journalist's name is Fahima Akhter Priya. She is working as the Cumilla correspondent of the Daily Karatoa.
The victim journalist said, on Saturday at around 8 am, I left for home after receiving treatment from Cumilla General Hospital. I crossed the Panchpukuria market in the upazila and waited for a rickshaw on the bridge. At that time, four people on two bikes came and blocked my way. They started abusing me in foul language and scolded me, asking why I had written such news as 'drugs are found in the Daudandi market'! At one point, they pulled my headscarf and threw me to the ground, severely beating me, injuring me and physically torturing me. They picked me up, raped me, threatened to kill me and kill me. At one point, they tried to throw me out and kill me, but I screamed. People gathered and rescued me and took me first to Chandina Maa Medical and later to Cumilla Medical College. Then the miscreants fled.
He also said that for the past few days, my phone had been receiving calls from several unknown numbers. When I answered the phone, they would abuse me in foul language and threaten to kill me. Why was I writing against influential people and their illegal business of sand, dredgers and drugs, and they kept pressuring me to delete the writing. At one point, I stopped receiving calls.
Muradnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Jahidul Islam said that an inquiry is being conducted into the matter.
He said that the higher authorities are looking into the matter.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Mofusal Journalists Forum (BMSF) has condemned the attack on a female journalist of the Daily Karatoa newspaper.
The organization's Board of Trustees Chairman Abu Zafar Ahmed and Advisor ABM Atiqur Rahman Bashar said in a statement that attacks on journalists while performing their professional duties are in no way desirable. Those involved must be brought to justice immediately.
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