Police to crack down on Tahir men
Police said they would soon launch a crackdown on those who conducted and participated in a web conference claimed to be organised by banned militant outfit Hijb ut-Tahrir yesterday.
The web conference started at 3:30pm and continued for around two hours and a half. The organisation, banned in October 2009, had been circulating the news of this conference for the last couple of weeks through posters, leaflets and social media posts, according to intelligence sources.
Police could easily foil the conference, but they let it happen for strategic reasons, said Deputy Commissioner (Media) Muntasirul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
"We did not want to stop the conference as part of our strategy. We wanted to know who were participating in the conference and who had radical mindset," he told The Daily Star.
He said law enforcement agencies have monitored the conference, gathered information on the participants and are now verifying those. "We will soon launch a crackdown to arrest them," he added.
"We have monitored the conference and identified the speakers and some participants. We are now working to bring them to book," said Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, director of the intelligence wing of the Rapid Action Battalion.
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