Weekly Blitz

Weekly Blitz is a leading tabloid newspaper published in Bangladesh every Wednesday by award winning internationally known journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an anti Islamist journalist in Bangladesh presently facing sedition, treason and blasphemy charges (Case No. 377, which is under trial with the Court of Metropolitan Session Judge in Dhaka, Bangladesh). According to Bangladeshi law, sedition bears capital punishment. See details on this issue on www.interfaithstrength.com

Weekly Blitz claims to have a wide number of readers in different countries in the world as well as it has several correspondents and contributors in major cities in the globe.

In July 2006, office of this newspaper was bombed by Islamist millitants (source: Press release by Committee to Protect Journalists). In October 2006, editor of this newspaper was attacked and physically beaten by members of the then ruling Islamist Coalition Government (source: interfaithstrength.com).

On 18th March 2008, members of Rapid Action Battalion raided the office of Weekly Blitz and abducted its editor from the office (Source: Wall Street Journal, March 27 2008, Editorial titled 'Bangladesh on Trial'). Although the editor was released after several hours, the government continues to give pressure on him for his courageous stand against radical Islam (source: Berliner Zeitung, front page news item, March 31, 2008).