(40.42) Free treatment for injured journalists: Information Minister
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has expressed hope that the attacks on journalists during the recent campaign of demanding safe roads will be possible to arrest them on Saturday (August 11th). At the same time, he has announced to provide free medical services to injured journalists.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu also said that allocation for the treatment would be done.
In a meeting with the members of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and the Executive Committee of the Dhaka Union of Journalists, the information minister said this while talking to the information ministry in the Secretariat office on Thursday (9th August).
During the meeting with State Information Minister Tarana Halim, Information Secretary Abdul Malek, Chief Information Officer Kamrun Nahar, BFUJ President Molla Jalal, DUJ President Abu Zafar Surya and General Secretary of the two organizations Shaban Mahmud and Sohel Haider Chowdhury were present in the meeting.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has informed the government about the activities of the attackers to bring the law enforcers to the earliest. The journalist leaders told the information minister that some of the government and party tried to say that those who had entered Jamaat-Shibir campus inside the BCL campus have done this kind of foul attack. If that is the case, then the attackers should be arrested and brought to the public by making it clear. Journalist leaders expressed anger over the arrest of attackers on journalists and said that this could be due to the lack of good will of the government.
Journalists leaders agreed to the meeting to create a country for the Liberation War, forgetting all the differences.