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The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (Media) said he was arrested on Wednesday night. Walid Hossain reported.
When asked about the charges on which he was arrested, the police officer told bdnews24.com: “There was an arrest warrant for him in a sedition case. He has been arrested on that basis.”
However, he was unable to immediately say anything about the case.
Ruhul Amin Gazi is also charged in the sedition case in which Abul Asad, editor of the Sangram newspaper, has been imprisoned for more than 10 months for publishing a report calling on the leader of Jamaat Abdul Quader Mollah, who was convicted. to death for crimes against humanity in 1971, a ‘martyr’.
Ruhul Amin Gazi, Sangram’s chief correspondent, is the chairman of the BNP-Jamaat affiliated section of the Federal Union of Journalists of Bangladesh.
Quader Mollah, known as the ‘Butcher of Mirpur’, was hanged on December 12, 2013 for war crimes. To commemorate that day, on December 12 last year a report was published on the front page of the Sangram newspaper, known as the spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, titled ‘Today is the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Shaheed Abdul Quader Mollah.’
A group of BCL leaders and activists burned several copies of the Sangram newspaper on December 13 last year at noon on the campus of Dhaka University. In the afternoon, protesters surrounded and smashed Dainik Sangram’s office.
An organization called Muktijuddha Mancha demanded the cancellation of the newspaper’s ‘statement’ within 24 hours, claiming that Dainik Sangram’s office was being used as a temporary office for Jamaat-Shibir.
After that incident, that night the police took Sangram’s secretary, Abul Asad, to the Hatirjheel police station. The commander of room no. 36 Muktijoddha, Mohammad Afzal, presented a case to the police station.
In addition to Abul Asad and Ruhul Amin Gazi, the newspaper’s news editor, Sadat Hossain, was also named in the case brought under the Sedition Section of the Penal Code and the Digital Security Law. Additionally, 7-8 more unidentified people were charged in the case.
Sangram’s secretary, Abul Asad, is still in jail in that case. Last month, the High Court granted him a one-year provisional bond, but the Court of the Appellate Division Chamber suspended it.
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