Dhaka, Bangladesh
$25 - $5000 / Day
Sheikh Sabiha Alam. I am a current Nieman fellow at Harvard and a Dhaka based reporter from Bangladesh. I am on leave from my current job and want to go back to reporting from June, 2023. I have 17 years of work experience in the print and digital media. Worked extensively on crime, human rights, Rohingya and migration, radicalisation, health, gender, child rights and above all democracy.
Produced for Prothom Alo
Since the great partition of India in 1947, border pillars have been a source of mystery among the inhabitants of the subcontinent. Out of superstition people try to get those in exchange of few millions dollar and get cheated. What actually this magnetic pillar is?
Produced for Prothom Alo
The story is about the weakening of human rights voices in Bangladesh due to government's interventions
The story is about the terrorist attack at Holey Bakery in 2016, that claimed dozens of lives
The story is about the torture in police custody. It focuses on how and why the victims have to negotiate with the law enforcement agency instead of fighting for justice
The story is about the alleged enforced disappearance of a cartoonist and the torture he endured at the police custody.
This story is about a draconian law, that the government has passed few years ago allegedly to arrest the dissents and now the children are not spared, too.
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