Tasneem Khalil
Exiled Bangladeshi journalist
Tasneem Khalil is an exiled Bangladeshi journalist. He is Editor in chief of Netra News.[1] He previously worked for The Daily Star and was a stringer for CNN and a consultant for Human Rights Watch.[2] During the 2006–2008 Bangladesh emergency, he was detained on 11 May 2007 and tortured while in the custody of Bangladesh's intelligence service.[2][3] Khalil currently lives in Örebro, Sweden, where he is publisher and editor of Independent World Report, a world news magazine focused on human rights issues.[4]
Tasneem Khalil | |
|---|---|
 Tasneem Khalil in 2017 | |
| Born | ca. 1981 |
| Disappeared | 11 May 2007 at 12:50 a.m. Sangsad Bhavan Army Camp |
| Status | Released 22 hours later and afterwards went into exile |
| Nationality | Bangladesh |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
| Education | North South University, Bangladesh (Linguistics/English) Malmö University, Sweden (Human Rights) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor & publisher |
| Years active | since 2000 |
| Employer(s) | Independent World Report (current publisher & editor), The Daily Star (former Bangladesh journalist), CNN (former stringer) |
| Organization | Human Rights Watch (consultant) |
| Known for | Human rights reporting |
| Spouse | Sharmin Afsana Suchi |
| Children | Tiyash |
| Website | tasneemkhalil |
References
change- ↑ "Bangladesh blocks Sweden-based Netra News". New Age. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bangladeshi journalist arrested". CNN. 11 May 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ↑ "World in Brief". The Washington Post. 11 May 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ↑ Öhlén, Mats (12 September 2010). "Bangladesh – Sweden – The World". Stockholm News. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
Other website
change- Tasneem Khalil Archived 2021-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- About Independent World Report Archived 2017-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Bangladesh interrogation centre where Britons were taken to be tortured The Guardian (17 January 2011)