Bangladesh
Daily Star reporter released on bailPosted Jun 20 2007
The Bangladesh government released journalist E.A.M. Asaduzzaman Tipu on an interim bail after arresting him on March 21. Tipu was arrested following allegations by a local fertilizer dealer, who later denied making the claim that the correspondent had made “unethical demands.” According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Tipu is a reporter for The Daily Star and had recently been investigating the local government's handling of fertilizer distribution in the area. Tipu had written in a March 17 article that a “crisis” had emerged because “no specific criterion is maintained by authorities in appointing fertilizer dealers.”