Shakil Ahmed

Shakil Ahmed is a Bangladeshi journalist and former head of news at Ekattor TV, a private television channel in Bangladesh. Ahmed has detained by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus after the 2024 July Uprising. The detention of Ahmed and his wife, fellow Ekattor TV journalist Farzana Rupa, was condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJIM), and The Editors' Council.