Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan (; born ) is a Bangladeshi freelance investigative journalist who received the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2002. He was the victim of a widely publicised attack instigated by a local politician that almost cost him his life.

2001 assault case In January 2001, Tipu Sultan was working in Feni District where he investigated an arson attack on the Sultana Memorial Junior Girls School in Omarpur. The school that had just been completed. On 17 January, he filed a report for United News of Bangladesh, an independent wire service, implicating Joynal Hazari, an Awami League Member of Parliament nicknamed "the Godfather of Feni".

On 25 January 8 days after his report on the destruction of the school, a group of approximately fifteen masked men abducted Sultan. both of his legs and hands were deliberately broken. Hazari denied any involvement in the attack. However, eight of the thirteen suspects absconded, and in 2003 was sentenced in absentia to life in prison. He is thought to have fled to India. In the days leading up to the hearing, Munna was the subject of two murder attempts. In the second, a bomb was thrown at him near the entrance of his home. Munna escaped unharmed—the bomb only damaged the road—but withdrew his offer to testify. As Hazari could not be apprehended, the trial did not proceed.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the attack on Sultan became "symbolic of the rising tide of violence directed against the press in Bangladesh", leading to both national and international outcry. He was also a finalist for the 2001 Reporters sans frontières-Fondation de France Award, which went to Reza Alijani of Iran.

By 2003, Sultan had moved to Dhaka and was working for the daily newspaper Prothom Alo.