{"id":32223,"date":"2021-05-19T02:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/18\/bangladeshi-journalist-arrested-and-charged-over-alleged-document-theft"},"modified":"2021-05-19T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:49:48","slug":"bangladeshi-journalist-arrested-and-charged-over-alleged-document-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32223","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi journalist arrested and charged over alleged document theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rozina Islam\u2019s family claim reporter has been assaulted and subject to \u2018mental torture\u2019 by police<\/p>\n<p>One of Bangladesh\u2019s most prominent investigative journalists, known for her anti-corruption reporting and criticism of the government\u2019s response to Covid-19, has been arrested and charged under the country\u2019s Official Secrets Act.<\/p>\n<p>Rozina Islam, 42, a senior investigative journalist at Bengali daily The Prothom Alo appeared before a Dhaka court on Tuesday morning charged with stealing official documents from the Health Ministry. The court turned down the police\u2019s appeal that she be remanded in their custody to be interrogated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/18\/bangladeshi-journalist-arrested-and-charged-over-alleged-document-theft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rozina Islam\u2019s family claim reporter has been assaulted and subject to \u2018mental torture\u2019 by policeOne of Bangladesh\u2019s most prominent investigative journalists, known for her anti-corruption reporting and criticism of the government\u2019s response to Covid-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,59,238,54,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32223\/revisions\/32240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}