{"id":10735,"date":"2020-04-14T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10735"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:10:28","slug":"enforced-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10735","title":{"rendered":"Enforced Disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A post by <em>Shahidul Alam<\/em>, <a aria-label=\"The journalist who got too close (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/shahidulnews.com\/the-journalist-who-got-too-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"aioseop-link\">The journalist who got too close<\/a>, reminded me of the dangers faced by journalists and photographers in some countries of the world, and in Bangladesh in particular, where extra-judicial killings and &#8216;disappearances&#8217; are now common, despite government protestations there that they show \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 to extra-judicial killings, or torture and death in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alam writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On March 10, 2020, the Bangladesh police registered a case against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol and 31 others under the country\u2019s draconian Digital Security Act for publishing \u2018false, offensive and defamatory\u2019 information on Facebook. He has not been seen since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read more about his case at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/03\/cctv-footage-shows-last-whereabouts-of-bangladeshi-journalist-shafiqul-islam-kajol\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Amnesty International<\/a> who have released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amnestysasia\/status\/1241302341392850944\" class=\"aioseop-link\">video showing CCTV footage<\/a> of unidentified men interfering with his motorbike outside the offices of his Bangla daily <em>Dainik Pokkhokal <\/em>for which he was both editor and photojournalist shortly before he left the office and rode away on the evening of 10 March 2020. He has not been seen since. Police filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/english\/news\/bengali\/missing-journalist-04012020171454.html\" class=\"aioseop-link\">new case against him<\/a> three hours after he was last seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> You can see a few photographs by <a href=\"https:\/\/majorityworld.com\/contributor-media\/387\/page1\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Shafiqul Islam Kajol<\/a> on the Majority World agency web site. His disappearance took place after he and 31 others were accused of publishing \u201cfalse, offensive and defamatory\u201d information on Facebook.  He had been publishing about sex scandals by members of the ruling party. He had previously been badly injured in several attacks when covering their political rallies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post by Shahidul Alam, The journalist who got too close, reminded me of the dangers faced by journalists and photographers in some countries of the world, and in Bangladesh in particular, where extra-judicial killings and &#8216;disappearances&#8217; are now common, despite government protestations there that they show \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 to extra-judicial killings, or torture and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enforced Disappearance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[1798,207,1794,206,1797,1793,1796,628,1795,1073],"class_list":["post-10735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","category-political-issues","tag-amnesty-international","tag-bangladesh","tag-crossfire","tag-dhaka","tag-disappearances","tag-enforced-disappearance","tag-extra-judicial-killings","tag-police","tag-shafiqul-islam-kajol","tag-torture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10736,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions\/10736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}