Release of Mashrefa Mishu demanded
Some 90 university teachers, lawyers, and different organisations in a statement yesterday protested the arrest of garment workers' leader Mashrefa Mishu and demanded her immediate release.
They signed the statement terming illegal the arrest of Mishu, president of Garment Workers Unity Forum. She was detained on Tuesday in connection with recent unrests in garment factories.
Mishu was produced in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court and remanded for two days the same day.
The signatories also demanded investigate into the reason of the recent fire in a garment factory in Ashulia, which left 24 people dead and scores wounded.
Prof Dr Gitiara Nasreen, Dr Akmal Hossain, Robaet Ferdous, and Mesbah Kamal of Dhaka University, author Farhad Mazhar, development activists Khushi Kabir, Hameeda Hossain, and Sara Hossain, and lawyers of the Supreme Court are among those signing the statement.
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