Guest writer, Tromsø City of Refuge 2011 - present
Jahangir Alam Akash is a journalist from Bangladesh, who has worked for newspapers, radio- and tv channels in his home country.
He has reported on human rights issues sush as Islamic militancy and extra-judicial killings and women's rights. Akash has been a front figure in Bengali human rights organizations like Justice Foundation, Bangladesh Institute for Human Rights and Taskforce Against Torture. He has published several books and has received awards for his human rights work as well as for his journalistic literature.
Akash was harassed, arrested unlawfully and tortured in prison. This forced him to leave Bangladesh, by the help of Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders. He is the editor of the website Euro Bangla.
