CU student arrested
Police yesterday detained a Hizb ut-Tahrir man at Hathazari upazila in Chittagong for threatening to kill the imam who led the namaz-e-janaza of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar.
Farabi Shafiur Rahman, a fourth-year student of physics at Chittagong University, was detained around 7:30pm near the second gate of the university, said Assistant Superintendent of Police (Hathazari Circle) AFM Nizam Uddin.
Farabi made the threat in a blog post. The imam conducted the prayers on February 16 at Shahbagh.
Rajib, an activist of the Shahbagh movement, was brutally murdered at Mirpur in the capital on February 15.
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