Menace de mort contre le photojournaliste bangladais Shahidul Alam

Merci de lire ce qui suit, preuve que la liberté de la presse et la liberté d'expression sont au quotidien menacées. L'organisation Reporters sans frontières est là pour nous le rappeler. Soutenez en particulier l'action de RSF c'est aussi un moyen d'apporter un soutien aux journalistes menacés comme Shahidul Alam aujourd'hui à l'autre bout du monde par des moyens appropriés.
La liberté de la presse et la liberté d'expression sont des droits inaliénables. Veillons à ce qu'ils ne soient pas bafoués.
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An Installation by Shahidul Alam on Extra Judicial Killings

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was set up on 26th March 2004 to curb corruption in Bangladesh. It consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force. RAB has increasingly been criticized for the extra judicial killings and torture that have taken place of people in custody. Human Rights groups maintain that over 1000 people have been killed by RAB since its inception. All such deaths have been attributed to gunfights between RAB and criminals where the people in RAB custody were caught in crossfire. No member of RAB has yet been killed in crossfire. Recently a high court bench passed a suo moto ruling, asking the secretary of the ministry of home affairs and RAB to explain a particular killing. The Chief Justice dissolved the bench immediately before the date for hearing (9 January 2010) of the government response – apparently for some administrative reasons. “Crossfire” is an exhibition of photographs where Bangladesh’s leading photographer Shahidul Alam, takes an allegorical look at the phenomenon. The constructed images use elements of real case studies to evoke stories that the government has denied.

Read and see more at: http://www.shahidulnews.com/crossfire/


Voici l'email que Drik India a envoyé à ses contacts:
Drik Gallery managing director, Shahidul Alam, on Monday filed a general diary with the Dhanmondi police station, following a death threat by an unidentified person.
   Quoting the complainant, assistant sub-inspector Joynal Abedin of the Dhanmondi police station told New Age, ‘An unidentified young man stormed into the Drik Gallery on March 27 (Saturday) morning and rudely asked the security guard about Shahidul Alam.’
   ‘But when the security guard inquired about the identity of the man, the young man refused to give his identity and told the guard that Alam would meet his death in the street.’
   A Drik Gallery source said, ‘After the closure of the exhibition “Crossfire”, an unknown young man came to the gallery premises in the morning of March 27 and asked the guard to tell Shahidul Alam that he would meet his death in the street.’
   The general diary is numbered 1542/29th March 2010.
   Earlier on the day, Drik Picture Library Ltd filed a writ petition (No 2543/29th March 2010) against the government decision stopping the exhibition titled ‘Crossfire’.
Courtesy : Newage  The Daily News Paper, Dhaka 30 March 2010
This is to note that Mahasweta Devi the legendary activist and author of India along with Drik India members went to Dhaka to open the exhibition  “Crossfire” by Shahidul Alam which was scheduled to be opened on 22 March, 2010. The state machinery cordoned Drik gallery and did not allow her to see the exhibition. The exhibition and installation, ‘Crossfire’, featuring photos evocative of the sites where the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion killed citizens under suspicious circumstances, was closed eight days ago by the government. RAB , the paramilitary forces have been implicated in numerous extrajudicial killings.
More in the blogs :
New York Times preview of the exhibition by David Gonzalez plus follow-up on the exhibition’s shutdown.
http://bxpnyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/in-person-death-threat-in-dhaka/
 
http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/570/2/