Cops raid Sangram's press

The Dhaka district administration, aided by Ramna police, last night raided the press and office of Bangla daily Sangram at the capital's Moghbazar for printing daily Amar Desh in last two days without the government permission.
Executive Magistrate Morarji Deshai led the raid from 11:00pm to 12:00am and seized 210 copies of Saturday's issue of Amar Desh and 5,000 copies of its Sunday issue from the Al-Falah Printing Press, said Shah Alam, officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station.
Police also picked up 19 of the Amar Desh press staff from the Sangram office.
Magistrate Nasrin Sultana filed a case with Ramna Police Station last night against the Amar Desh authorities for printing the daily at Al-Falah press without permission.
Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, was arrested on Thursday and placed on a 13-day remand in three cases.
Later that day, police locked the Amar Desh press and seized a computer and some documents.
In the case he was arrested, Mahmudur faces sedition charge for publishing Skype conversations between Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1, and Ahmed Ziauddin, an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
He was shown arrested in two other cases, filed last month with Tejgaon Police Station for acts of violence and assaulting police during hartals.