Siddiqur Rahman released on bail
A Dhaka court yesterday granted interim bail to journalist Siddiqur Rahman Khan who was arrested at Shikhya Bhaban in the capital on September 1.
The editor of online newspaper Doinik Sikkha and two-time Dhaka Reporters Unity award winner and was released in the afternoon.
Fahima Khatun, former director general of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education and also wife of ruling party lawmaker Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury, filed the case under the Information and Communications Technology Act for publishing in his online newspaper six reports which defamed and tarnished “her image and that of the state”.
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