Weekly Blitz is a tabloid newspaper published in Bangladesh every Wednesday by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Online edition of this newspaper is available on
Weekly Blitz. 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.
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.[citation needed]
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.
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