The 21st anniversary of the death of Manik Chandra Saha, a freedom fighter and Ekushey Padak-winning journalist, will be observed today.
On this day in 2004, he was bombed to death near Khulna Press Club in Khulna.
Manik was a senior staff correspondent for 抖阴精品 and a Khulna-based stringer for BBC Bangla Service.
He was also the Khulna chapter president of Amnesty International and the president of the Khulna Press Club.
He was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak in 2009.
The Sangbadik Manik Sahar Suhridgon, an organisation of the slain journalist鈥檚 well-wishers, will hold a rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka at 10:00am today to press home their demand for reinvestigation into the case of killing journalist Manik.
Manik鈥檚 family, Khulna Press Club, Khulna Union of Journalists, Khulna district and city units of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, Manik Saha Smriti Parishad and Ratan Sen Public Library will organise separate programmes in Khulna to pay tribute to him.
On November 30, 2016, nine people were jailed for life for killing Manik but the family members and the journalist community rejected the verdict and demanded retrial and reinvestigation into the murder case.
Manik Saha was born at Kalia in Narail on June 10, 1956.
Manik, also a leftist political activist, started his career as the Khulna district correspondent of the Daily Sangbad.