Salah Choudhury
Bangladeshi journalist
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a Bangladeshi journalist. He is an editor of the Bangladeshi tabloid Blitz. In 2014, he was convicted of carrying documents provoking interreligious friction, and in 2015 of embezzlement. Fact-checkers have found Choudhury to have posted disinformation on various occasions.
Career
Choudhury is the editor and owner of the English language newspaper Blitz, and editor-in-chief of Bangla weekly Jamjamat. Blitz is a tabloid which has been published every Wednesday since 2003 by Choudhury.
The tabloid states that it watches, investigates, and focuses on Islamist militancy groups; and that it defends religious minority groups in Bangladesh.
According to The Baltimore Examiner Choudhury was a correspondent for the Daily Inqilab, as the mouthpiece of the Jamaat-e-Islami backed by Pakistan.
Prosecutions and assaults
Choudhury was arrested on 29 November 2003 when he tried to attend a seminar in Tel Aviv at the invitation of the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace. He was charged with smuggling country information, sedition, treason, and blasphemy in 2003, and a case was filed against him on 24 January 2004 by Mohammad Abdul Hanif, head of Airport Police Station of Dhaka, who stated that he was a Mossad agent based on the documents found in his possession.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7403436. VIAF identifies the subject as 7057635. The Library of Congress control number is no2002041792. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2015, 2003 and 2004.
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