Pressure to investigate Bangladeshi journalist's death

The Paris-based organisation, Reporters sans Frontieres, which campaigns for press freedom, has called on the authorities in Bangladesh to investigate the murder of a journalist whose body was found on Sunday.

Reporters sans Frontieres said in a letter to the head of the new caretaker government, Latifur Rahman, that it was concerned about reports that the journalist, Ahsan Ali, had received death threats from a local student leader of the Awami League.

The organisation said Mr Ali's body had been found abandoned and mutilated.

Mr Ali was a journalist with the Dhaka newspaper, Dainik Jugantor.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service