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Hotel owner held over harassing foreign journalist

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Published: 12:01, 13 March 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Hotel owner held over harassing foreign journalist

American photojournalist Allison Joyce

Kushtia Correspondent: Police on Monday noon detained a hotel owner for allegedly harassing an American photojournalist.

Officer in Charge (OC) of Kushtia Model Police Station Shahabuddin Chowdhury confirmed the matter to risingbd.com.

The OC said American photojournalist Allison Joyce filed complaints at Kushtia Deputy Commissioner's office and filed a general diary at Kushtia Model Police Station on March 12.

On the basis of her complaints, police requested Kushtia Magistrate court to investigate the allegation. Executive Magistrate Mezbah gave permission to investigate matter. Later police detained owner of the hotel Bishwanath Shaha Bishu from his house at Arjunadesh Agarwala Road in the town.

Allison's guide Sufi Faruk Ibn Abu Bakar submitted the complaint on Sunday.

According to the plaintiff, Allison Joyce was staying in Kheya Abashik Hotel on March 6. At night, Bishwanath became drunk and called Allison's mobile phone to enter her room. As Allison did not receive the call, Bishwanath knocked at the door.

At one point he tried to open the door with another key. Allison was staying at the room alone when the incident took place.

When she contacted to her Bangladesh colleague named Ali Ehsan, he rushed to the hotel and rescued her from the hotel with help of some other men.

In the complaint, she wrote: If I did not come here in Bangladesh, I would never know about how harassment the rural women are facing.

Allison requested Kushtia Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police to take action against the hotel owner.

Superintendent of Police in Kushtia S M Mehedi Hasan, and Additional Deputy Commissioner Mujibul Firdaus were present at the Deputy Commissioner's Office when the complaint was filed.

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