Arrest order for Prothom Alo editor
A Jhalakathi court today issued arrest warrant against the Prothom Alo editor in a case filed for publishing a cartoon on Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (pbuh) in the daily’s magazine “Alpin” in 2007.
Bani Amin Bakshai, a member of Jhalakathi district bar association, lodged the case with a court on October 10 last year.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Arifuzzaman today issued the arrest warrant against Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman and the daily’s photojournalist Majid Khan failed to appear before the court in response to its summon order issued on November 16 last year.
Earlier, the court summoned the duo for two times but they did not appear before it.
The Bangla daily published the cartoon on September 17, 2007.
In the case statement, the plaintiff further said that the daily also published an article on Surah Luqman on the 5th page of its magazine “Roshalo” on March 13, 2013. “But the surah was not interpreted properly there,” he claimed.
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