07 August 2025 | CPJ
Reporter hacked to death in suburbs of Dhaka
Knife attack
Asaduzzaman Tuhin, a 40-year-old staff reporter for the Bangla-language daily Protidiner Kagoj in Gazipur, a suburb of Dhaka, was chased and hacked to death by a group of armed assailants at around 8 p.m. on August 7, 2024. Protidiner Kagoj reported that the attack occurred after Tuhin filmed several armed men assaulting a man in a public dispute.
Police said the killing was orchestrated by a fraud ring led by a man named Kopa Mizan, known as "Ketu Mizan," and his wife, Parul Akter alias "Golapi," who had set up the assault as part of a "honey trap" scheme. When the assailants saw Tuhin recording the incident, they allegedly ordered him to delete the footage; after he refused and identified himself as a journalist, they chased him into a nearby tea shop and killed him with machetes, newspaper Prothom Alo reported.
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