Journo factions reiterate demand for Mahmudur's release

A group of journalists reiterated their demands for the release of Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman and reopening of the newspaper's printing press, which remains sealed off since April 11.
To press home their demands the journalists of two factions of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) held a rally before the Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday.
Addressing the rally, Ruhul Amin Gazi, president of a faction of BFUJ, said, “We will continue the demonstration until our demands are met.”
He also announced a four-hour sit-in programme to be held from 10:00am today at the same venue.
On April 11, police arrested Rahman in a case for publishing Skype conversations between Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1; and Ahmed Ziauddin, an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
Rahman was also shown arrested in two other cases — one filed in connection with hartal and pre-hartal violence; and another for assaulting police and obstructing them from discharging their duties.