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  "slug": "muhammad-yunus",
  "name": "Muhammad Yunus",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Chief Adviser, interim government of Bangladesh",
  "country": "BD",
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      "slug": "2025-bangladesh-journalists-attacked-interim-government",
      "title": "Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws",
      "occurred_on": "2025-02-03",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "BD",
      "country_name": "Bangladesh",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "BD",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "detention_and_violence",
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        "detention_and_violence",
        "surveillance_and_subpoenas"
      ],
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      "leader_name": "Muhammad Yunus",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The incidents occurred six months into the interim government that took power after Sheikh Hasina's government fell in August 2024, a period in which press-freedom groups said journalists faced both continued street violence and new draft cyber-security legislation.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": null,
      "outcome_note": "No arrests were reported in the incidents described, and the proposed cyber ordinances remained under review.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 152,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "On a single day in February 2025, groups of men beat at least eight journalists in two separate incidents in rural Bangladesh while they investigated a medical-negligence tip and a land dispute; the incidents came as the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus drafted new cyber ordinances rights groups said could add legal risk on top of the physical one.",
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