Sangram editor sent to jail after remand
A Dhaka court yesterday sent Abul Asad, editor of Bangla daily Sangram, to jail in a case filed over circulating provocative report and sedition.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah gave the order, rejecting a bail petition. Yesterday, police produced Asad before the court on completion of a three-day remand.
On December 14, a Dhaka court placed Asad on remand in the case. Afzal Hossain, a freedom fighter, filed the case with Hatirjheel Police Station under Digital Security Act.
Police took Asad into custody on December 13 after a mob vandalised the office of the daily, over publishing a report that termed executed war criminal Abdul Quader Molla a “martyr”.
Quader Molla, former assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami and known infamously as “The butcher of Mirpur” during the Liberation War, was hanged in 2013 after being convicted in a case for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War by the Supreme Court on September 17 that year.
Molla led at least two mass killings in Keraniganj near Dhaka and Mirpur, taking the lives of around 400 unarmed Bangalees.
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