Weekly Blitz
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Weekly Blitz is a tabloid newspaper published in Bangladesh
every Wednesday by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net. Blitz started its journey in 2003, and by now, online edition of this weekly newspaper has already reached the top position amongst all other English language periodicals published in Bangladesh.
Weekly Blitz has huge readership in United States of America, United Kingdom and European Union. While it has significant number of readers in Israel, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan as well African and Australian continents.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an anti Islamist journalist in Bangladesh presently facing sedition
, treason
and blasphemy
charges (Case No. 377, which is under trial with the Court of Metropolitan Session Judge in Dhaka, Bangladesh). According to Bangladeshi law, sedition bears capital punishment
. He received Freedom to Write Award from PEN USA in 2005; Moral Courage Award from American Jewish Committee in 2006; Monaco Media Award in 2007; Key to Englewood City in 2007 as well as several awards and recognitions at home and abroad.
Weekly Blitz continues to watch, investigate and focus hidden agenda of Islamist militancy groups in Bangladesh as well in the region and the world. It strongly defends religious minority groups in Bangladesh. Moreover, Weekly Blitz dares to publish some news, which are either ignored or never published by any other newspaper in Bangladesh. Especially, Weekly Blitz only publishes un-molested and un-twisted information on Israel, the Jewish world as well as the West.
In July 2006, office of this newspaper was bombed by Islamist militants (source: Press release by Committee to Protect Journalists). In October 2006, editor of this newspaper was attacked and physically beaten by members of the then ruling Islamist Coalition Government.
On 18 March 2008, members of Rapid Action Battalion
raided the office of Weekly Blitz and abducted its editor from the office (Source: Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2008, Editorial titled 'Bangladesh on Trial'). Although the editor was released after several hours.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
every Wednesday by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net. Blitz started its journey in 2003, and by now, online edition of this weekly newspaper has already reached the top position amongst all other English language periodicals published in Bangladesh.
Weekly Blitz has huge readership in United States of America, United Kingdom and European Union. While it has significant number of readers in Israel, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan as well African and Australian continents.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an anti Islamist journalist in Bangladesh presently facing sedition
Sedition
In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent to lawful authority. Sedition may include any...
, treason
Treason
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...
and blasphemy
Blasphemy
Blasphemy is irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things. Some countries have laws to punish blasphemy, while others have laws to give recourse to those who are offended by blasphemy...
charges (Case No. 377, which is under trial with the Court of Metropolitan Session Judge in Dhaka, Bangladesh). According to Bangladeshi law, sedition bears capital punishment
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
. He received Freedom to Write Award from PEN USA in 2005; Moral Courage Award from American Jewish Committee in 2006; Monaco Media Award in 2007; Key to Englewood City in 2007 as well as several awards and recognitions at home and abroad.
Weekly Blitz continues to watch, investigate and focus hidden agenda of Islamist militancy groups in Bangladesh as well in the region and the world. It strongly defends religious minority groups in Bangladesh. Moreover, Weekly Blitz dares to publish some news, which are either ignored or never published by any other newspaper in Bangladesh. Especially, Weekly Blitz only publishes un-molested and un-twisted information on Israel, the Jewish world as well as the West.
In July 2006, office of this newspaper was bombed by Islamist militants (source: Press release by Committee to Protect Journalists). In October 2006, editor of this newspaper was attacked and physically beaten by members of the then ruling Islamist Coalition Government.
On 18 March 2008, members of Rapid Action Battalion
Rapid Action Battalion
Rapid Action Battalion or RAB is an elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of Bangladesh Police constituted amending the Armed Police Battalion Ordinance, 1979. Under the command of Inspector General of Police it consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy,...
raided the office of Weekly Blitz and abducted its editor from the office (Source: Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2008, Editorial titled 'Bangladesh on Trial'). Although the editor was released after several hours.
External links
- http://www.weeklyblitz.net/index.php?id=988
- http://www.modernghana.com/news/208932/1/why-forces-intelligence-attacked-weekly-blitz-offi.html
- http://www.yale.edu/yiisa/shoaibchoudhurypaper102909.pdf
- http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1157913680684
- http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20758306-32522,00.html