Journo Probir Sikdar indicted
A Dhaka court today framed charges against journalist Probir Sikdar in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology Act.
Judge KM Shamsul Alam of the Cyber Tribunal also fixed October 6 to start trial of the case with the deposition of the complainant of the case.
Probir Sikder, now on bail, however, pleaded not guilty before the court.
The 55-year-old editor of Saily Bangla 71 and online news portal u71news.com was arrested on August 16 last year after Faridpur Awami League leader Swapan Kumar Paul filed the case under the ICT Act over a Facebook post he made.
In the Facebook post dated August 10, Probir said his life was under threat and that now Local Government and Rural Development Minister Khandkar Mosharraf Hossain, businessman Moosa Bin Shamser and condemned fugitive war criminal Abul Kalam Azad would be responsible if he was killed.
Police produced the journalist before the court on August 17 and took him on remand for three days creating huge outrage in the country. He was freed on bail two days later.
A Faridpur court on April 19 this year accepted a charge sheet against journalist Probir Sikdar and sent the case to country’s lone Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka for trial.
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