Mahmudur Rahman's release demanded

Journalists from different media houses, professionals and political leaders attended a demonstration before the capital's Jatiya Press Club yesterday demanding release of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Amar Desh.
They also demanded reopening the newspaper's printing press, which police have kept locked since April 11, withdrawing cases filed against the newspaper's acting chairman and the daily Sangram editor, and release of 19 workers of the press.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists organised the demonstration where Ruhul Amin Gazi, president of a faction of BFUJ, declared to stage a four-hour hunger strike from 10:00am on Thursday at the same venue.
A Hefajat-e Islam delegation, reading out a letter from Hefajat Ameer Shah Ahmad Shafi, said Hefajat would be forced to announce tougher programmes against the government if the demands were not met.
Mahmudur was arrested on April 11 in three cases, including one over sedition charges for publishing Skype conversations between Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1, and Ahmed Ziauddin, an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.