Tasneem Khalil
Tasneem Khalil | |
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Tasneem Khalil in 2017 | |
| Born | ca. 1981 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
| Education | North South University, Bangladesh (Linguistics/English) Malmö University, Sweden (Human Rights) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor & publisher |
| Years active | since 2000 |
| Employer(s) | 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 |
| Spouse | Sharmin Afsana Suchi |
| Children | Tiyash |
| Website | tasneemkhalil |
Tasneem Khalil is an exiled Bangladeshi journalist. He is editor in chief of Netra News. He previously worked for The Daily Star and was a stringer for CNN and a consultant for Human Rights Watch. During the 2006–2008 Bangladesh emergency, he was detained on 11 May 2007 and tortured while in the custody of Bangladesh's intelligence services. 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.