Jamaat leader ATM Azharul 're-arrested'
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami claimed that the party's acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam was rearrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of police shortly after he walked out of Dhaka Central Jail on High Court's bail yesterday.
Acting Ameer Mokhbul Ahmad condemned and protested the arrest, a statement signed by Matiur Rahman Akand, assistant secretary of Jamaat's central publicity department, said.
Azharul was arrested on September 19, 2011.
Sources said Jamaat's acting secretary general and 11 other leaders and activists of Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir were released from the jail around 7:00pm yesterday.
Azharul and eight others were picked up at the jail gate by the DB police, according to sources. However, neither of the officials of the DB nor that of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed the arrest.
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