On June 21, 1992, according to the fact-finding report of the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission, more than 50 journalists were injured when the police raid at the National Press Club and its ajoining areas continued for more than two hours from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30p.m. in Dhaka. At about 5:45 p.m., the Nirmul Samannaya Committee (National Coordination Committee for Realization of the spirit of the Liberation War and Resistance to the killers and collaborators of 1971) held a meeting in front of the office of the Bangladesh Communist Party, two cocktails were blasted on the road. Participants of the meeting requested the police force to arrest the bomb-attackers, but the police did not do that. Instead, police charged batons on the participants and started arresting people. The journalists took snaps of those actions. At this the police become furious and started attacking the journalists. Later the police raid at the National Press Club nearby and caused the injuries of more journalists.

The Bangladesh Human Rights Commission requested for actions of sending letters of appeal to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia condemning the unprovoked attack on the journalists on June21.