Saleem Samad, is an Ashoka Fellow (USA) for agenda-setting journalism in 1991 and also recipient of Hellman-Hammett Award by New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), an award-winning investigative reporter for more than 40 years.
He was stringer for prestigious TIME, India Today and Outlook magazines. Presently he is correspondent for a Paris based international media rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). He has covered two-decade-long insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, south-east Bangladesh, the Iraq-Iran war in 1983. In 2002 he along with two foreign journalists was arrested for sedition and tortured for working with the British TV channel. Later the security agency forced him go into exile in 2004. After six years in exile in Canada, he returned to Bangladesh in February 2010.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Interested to meet people from other countries to learn culture, food, tradition, history. politics, music, books

兴趣

• books
• meditation
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• geography
• history
• journalism
• religion
• food
• media
• current affairs

音乐、电影和书籍

Music, Books, Movies, Politics, Meditation

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Share my experience, cooking traditional Bangladeshi dishes,.

我游览过的国家

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Canada, Nepal, United States