New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- Months ahead of Bangladesh's general elections, the country's media is facing a challenging period, with freedom of expression increasingly overshadowed by concerns over journalists' "right to stay alive," editors of several leading Bangladeshi newspapers have said.

Daily Star editor and publisher Mahfuz Anam also pointed to social media posts that allegedly called for journalists from the dailies 'Prothom Alo' and 'The Daily Star' to be tracked down and killed at their homes.

The remarks came on Monday in the wake of mobs vandalising and setting ablaze the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star newspapers in Dhaka on Thursday night, trapping several journalists and staff inside for hours as police and fire serv...