Tasneem Khalil
| Tasneem Khalil | |
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| Born | ca. 1981 |
| Disappeared | 11 May 2007 at 12:50 a.m. Sangsad Bhavan Army Camp |
| Status | Released 22 hours later and afterwards went into exile |
| Residence | Örebro, Sweden |
| Nationality | Bangladesh |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
| Education | North South University, Bangladesh (Linguistics/English) Malmö University, Sweden (Human Rights) |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor & publisher |
| Years active | since 2000 |
| Employer | Independent World Report (current publisher & editor), The Daily Star (former Bangladesh journalist), CNN (former stringer) |
| Organization | Human Rights Watch (consultant) |
| Known for | Human rights reporting |
| Home town | Sylhet, Bangladesh |
| Spouse(s) | Sharmin Afsana Suchi |
| Children | Tiyash |
| Website | tasneemkhalil |
Tasneem Khalil is an exiled Bangladeshi journalist who previously worked for The Daily Star and was a stringer for CNN and a consultant for Human Rights Watch. During the 2007–2008 Bangladesh emergency, he was detained on 11 May 2007 and tortured while in the custody of Bangladesh's intelligence service. Khalil currently lives in Örebro, Sweden, where he is publisher and editor of Independent World Report, a world news magazine focused on human rights issues.
Tasneem Khalil was born around 1981 in Bangladesh. While in Dhaka, Khalil studied English Linguistics at North South University. After his confinement in Bangladesh, he went into hiding for one month, and then on 6 June 2007 was able to escape via a major Bangladeshi airport. From there he went into exile with his family and sought refuge in Sweden, a country he chose for its record on freedom of speech. Sweden granted him exile in June 2007. He studied human rights at Malmö University in Malmö and started his own magazine while in Sweden. Khalil is married to Sharmin Afsana Suchi and the couple has one son Tiyash.
Tasneem Khalil was an editorial assistant with The Daily Star from 2000–2007. During this time he also wrote for Forum, which is a monthly magazine. He later became a stringer from Bangladesh for CNN and a consultant for Human Rights Watch in 2006. Khalil was active in his reporting and "prolific' in his blogging about human rights issues and violations, something his wife said would get him in trouble eventually.
After his confinement in Bangladesh and fleeing to Sweden, Khalil is the publisher and editor of Independent World Report, where he focuses on human rights topics in this subscription-based magazine. At Independent World Report, Khalil is providing dissidents with a means to communicate with the outside world:
The moment an individual signs up as a dissident journalist in China or a human-rights activist in Uzbekistan or a democracy activist in Burma he or she crosses a certain line, very much knowing what lies ahead. None of them have asked us to provide them with anonymity. They also want a global platform of human-rights journalism, and that is what we are trying to build.
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