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The court has rejected the pre-trial detention of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who was detained under the Digital Security Act for drawing cartoons. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim issued the order at noon on Sunday. The request for preventive detention was heard in the absence of the accused.
The teenager’s attorney is attorney Jyotirmoy Barua. The daily star“After filing the charge sheet, the police have no jurisdiction to reapply for the accused’s remand in custody,” he said. The prosecution could not give a satisfactory answer as to why he (the teenager) was not presented in court.
The accused was requested to appear in court to file a complaint with the Metropolitan Sessions Court for physical and mental torture in the custody of the RAB. According to the petition, on May 7 last year, members of the RAB-3 arrested cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore. After he was taken from Lalmatia’s house, some members of the RAB tortured him mentally, physically and mentally. As a result, he was injured in both ears and his left leg. According to the Prevention of Torture and Death in Custody Act 2013, which is a specific criminal offense.
The appeal is scheduled to be heard in the Dhaka court, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate Muhammad Asaduzjan Noor.
Deputy Inspector of the Police Against Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and the new investigating officer of the case. Afshar Ahmed had requested a three-day pretrial detention for the teenager and writer Mushtaq Ahmed on February 23.
He mentioned in the request that Ahmed Kabir Kishore and Mushtaq Ahmed have been accused of spreading false propaganda against the state and government on Facebook, such as drawing a caricature or caricature about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and tarnishing the situation of law and order. . According to the plaintiff in the case, the defendant had been spreading lies and confusion among people about the coronavirus on Facebook with the intention of deteriorating the situation of law and order. From the Facebook page propaganda was carried out with the intention of tarnishing the image of the heads of various security forces, including the Bangladesh Army.
In the impartial investigation of the case, it is necessary to know who is the administrator-editor of IM Bangladesh’s Facebook page, who manages the page and what is the purpose of their communication with each other, including the presence of the accused.
In addition, from the custody of the accused to gain control of various digital posters related to the case brief, several Facebook IDs delivered by the plaintiff, capturing a screenshot and checking the inbox of the applications that the accused chatted with Messenger, Group Messenger, WhatsApp. A longer questioning is absolutely necessary.
A day later, on February 25, Mushtaq Ahmed died in captivity.
Last year, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed from Kakrail and Lalmatia in the capital. A case was filed against 11 people, including Kishore and Mushtaq, at the Ramna Police Station under the Digital Security Act.
On February 4 of this year, the police filed a charge sheet against Kishore, Mushtaq and Didarul Bhuiyan. Police said the allegations against Minhaj Mannan, a former director of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, were unsubstantiated. The other seven defendants: journalist Tasneem Khalil, journalist Shahed Alam, blogger Asif Mohiuddin, Zulkarnain Sayer Khan, Ashiq Imran, Swapan Wahid and Philip Schumacher could not be investigated because they were abroad.
The cyber court ordered a new investigation of the case on February 10.
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