The assault left several injured, including a woman journalist from Radio Capital. We call on the interim government of Bangladesh to conduct an immediate, thorough investigation into this attack and to bring the perpetrators to justice.

VG’s is not the first case of legal harassment of journalists in India, as several journalists have recently been booked by the police for merely doing their job.

Former DOXA editor Natalia Tyshkevich was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest over a social media post in 2017.

The police detained Nebiye Arı, Yağmur Kaya, Hilal Işık and other journalists, who were covering a student protest in Ankara.

Dokuz8Haber editor Esra Tokat was prevented from filming students’ press briefing about the sexual assault of a woman by a veterinarian.

12 women journalists were beaten by the police force while following the student protest in İstanbul. Police confiscated their press IDs and also impeded journalists from filming police brutality against students. The Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) condemns the violation of journalists' right to report. We demand an immediate return of the seized press cards