Reporter beaten and left for dead in northern Bangladesh

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Bangladeshi authorities to prosecute all those involved in the severe beating that Shelu Akand, a journalist based in the northern city of Jamalpur, received last month because he was going to testify against members of a local political clan responsible for an attack on another journalist. Shelu Akand, who will continue to be hospitalized with both legs in plaster for at least three more weeks, came close to losing his life when he was

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