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GENEVA, 6 Jan:<\/strong> Bangladesh, engulfed in political unrest while heading for its national election on 12 February, 2026, recorded the murder of journalist Rana Pratap Bairagi, who incidentally becomes the first journo-victim across the world this year.<\/p>\n The global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), strongly condemned the shooting down of Bairagi (45) and demanded a thorough probe to identify the culprits for punishment under the law.<\/p>\n Local media reports stated that Bairagi, a resident of Arua village in Jessore locality of south Bangladesh, was fatally shot in his head by three miscreants on 5 January. The editor of a Bengali newspaper titled Dainik BD Khabar, he was found dead at Kopalia Bazaar with his throat also slit.<\/p>\n Son of a Hindu schoolteacher in Keshabpur upazila, Bairagi also ran an ice-making factory in Kopalia market.<\/p>\n Blaise Lempen, president of the PEC, has urged Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government in Dhaka, to take interest in delivering justice to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n The PEC’s south and southeast Asian representative Nava Thakuria informed that the Muslim majority nation has lately drawn international media attention for recent socio-political turmoil, where many religious minority families were attacked by radical elements across the country of over 170 million people.<\/p>\n Last year, the south Asian country witnessed the murder of five media professionals, namely, Assaduzzaman Tuhin (Dainik Pratidiner Kagoj), Bibhuranjan Sarkar (Ajker Patrika), Wahed-uz-Zaman Bulu (Dainik Ajker Kagoj), Khandahar Shah Alam (Dainik Matrijagat), and Imdadul Haque Milon (Bartaman Somoy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GENEVA, 6 Jan: Bangladesh, engulfed in political unrest while heading for its national election on 12 February, 2026, recorded the murder of journalist Rana Pratap Bairagi, who incidentally becomes the first journo-victim across the world this year. The global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), strongly condemned the shooting down of Bairagi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}