University branch of the Chhatra League used sticks to attack a reporter from the Daily Star, over reports critical of the organisation's campus activities. Similarly, On September 25, 2010 an unknown assailant targeted the Rangpur correspondent of the Daily Jugantor and stabbed him in the back. The correspondent had published an article on manipulation of tenders by AL activists in the area. In both cases, the assailants remained at large.103 Freedom of Religion:104 Traditionally, Bangladesh is a moderate Muslim country, wherein every citizen has the constitutional right to profess, practise or propagate any religion, and every religious community or denomination has the right to establish, maintain and manage its religious institutions. However, although governments publicly support freedom of religion, in recent years, attacks on religious and ethnic minorities continue to be a problem since religious minorities are often at the bottom of the social hierarchy and, therefore, have the least political recourse. Ahmadia Jamaat – a religious group – has been threatened by Islamic extremists, and successive governments were under pressure from those Islamic groups to declare the followers of Ahmadia Jamaat nonMuslims. There are reported attacks on institutions of the Ahmadia Muslim Community and there have been isolated 105 106 84 Ibid. Ibid.

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