Award-winning exiled investigative journalist from Bangladesh, with nine years of work experience in various top news outlets globally with a steadfast commitment to truth and justice. My work encompasses exposing corruption, human rights abuses, and financial crimes in Bangladesh—a country where such revelations often come at great personal risk. As a Research Analyst with Al Jazeera Investigative Unit, I contributed to number of ground breaking documentaries which won several prestigious international awards including Best Human Rights Journalism at the Amnesty International Media Awards 2022 and Best Investigative Documentary at the DIG Award 2021 (Long form Investigative) and 2025 (Medium form Investigative).
I have also worked with Netra News and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, producing investigative stories that hold power to account and unearth grave wrongdoings of those in power.
My passion for this work is because of a deep sense of responsibility toward the marginalized and disenfranchised. Investigative journalism, in my view, is not merely storytelling but a means to bring about change in society. Indeed, my work has contributed to bringing about such change. From abroad I extensively covered the Monsoon Revolution in Bangladesh that resulted in the ouster of the authoritarian Sheikh Hasina government.
My journalistic works have exposed corruption at the highest levels of government, revealed systemic human rights abuses, and empowered communities to demand accountability, leading a public dissatisfaction with the previous government which was corrupt and tyrannical and fomented a sense of resentment within the people that culminated to the ground breaking revolution in Bangladesh. My work has also been variously recognized with multiple international awards.
The documentary The Secret Prisoner of Dhaka, which I co-reported, won the 2023 Global Shining Light Award from the Global Investigative Journalism Network, showing how committed journalism can challenge oppressive systems.
