Six Hizb-ut Tahrir men arrested

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), in two drives, arrested six alleged Hizb-ut Tahrir activists in Chittagong city yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from Rab-7 held five of them in front of Belal Masjid in Muradpur area of the port city around 5:00pm, said ASP Nazmul Hossain.
They are Mofijul Islam, 23, Osman, 27, Shariful Islam, 19, Saiful Alam, 25, and Abdur Rahim, 53, of Chittagong.
Rab also seized many leaflets, posters, magazines and books on Jihad from them.
Later, the battalion caught Emdadul, 19, from a house in Nasirabad Housing Society.