The Editors' Council has demanded the swift filing of charges and completion of the trial process in the Sagar-Runi murder case through the submission of a charge sheet.
This demand was made in a statement signed on Thursday, by the Council's President Mahfuz Anam and General Secretary Deewan Hanif Mahmud.
The statement notes that on February 11, 2012, journalist couple Sagar Sarwar, news editor at Masranga Television, and Meherun Runi, senior reporter at ATN Bangla, were brutally murdered in their rented apartment in West Rajabazar, Dhaka.
The court has extended the deadline for submitting the investigation report a total of 111 times. The Editors' Council is calling for the immediate filing of the charge sheet and completion of the trial process.
The statement also condemns the attack on August 19 on the East West Media Group building in the Basundhara residential area of Dhaka. During the attack, the offices of Daily Kaler Kantho and Radio Capital, both owned by East West Media Group, were vandalized, and several vehicles parked outside were damaged.
Additionally, on August 21, former news chief Shakil Ahmed and former principal correspondent and presenter Farzana Rupa of Ekattor TV were detained at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Immigration authorities handed them over to the Detective Branch (DB) of police, and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) later announced their arrest in connection with a murder case.
