Watermark & National Gay Media Association condemn murder of LGBT magazine editor

Watermark & National Gay Media Association condemn murder of LGBT magazine editor

Watermark is a member of the National Gay Media Association. In solidarity with LGBT journalists around the world, the NGMA has issued a statement on the murder of the editor of a LGBTI publication in Bangladesh.

Read the full statement after the jump: 

The National Gay Media Association today joins with the world community in condemning the senseless and brutal killing yesterday of Xulhaz Mannan, the editor of Roopbaan, an LGBTI publication in Bangladesh.

Mannan also worked at the US Embassy.

The National Gay Media Association, representatives of the major legacy LGBTQ publications in the United States of America, deplore the unconscionable murder, and call upon Bangladesh officials to fulfill their promise to track down and prosecute the assailants.

“We are a voice for LGBTQ people everywhere,” the NGMA stated, “but it is most important that we be heard when journalists anywhere find press freedoms threatened by violent acts that are universally despicable.”

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