‘A textbook example of fascism’

BNP Standing Committee Member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has said the "detention" of the party's secretary general and a standing committee member was "a textbook example of fascism".

Condemning the "detention" of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas, he told The Daily Star, "Such detention is nothing but a textbook example of fascism when discussions on the venue [of December 10 rally] are going on."

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