Order on Sunday
This April 11 photo shows law enforcers taking Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, to a court hours into his arrest at the newspaper office in the capital.
The High Court has fixed Sunday for passing an order on a writ petition challenging the legality of placing Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, on a 13-day remand in three separate cases.
Mahmudur's wife Firoza Mahmud filed the writ petition with the High Court on Wednesday saying that the authorities took her husband on remand violating the relevant laws and an HC directive.
An accused cannot be taken on remand for more than three days in a phase but Mahmudur was remanded for 13 days, which is against the law, Firoza claimed.
She further claimed that the law enforcers tortured Mahmudur during the seven-day remand, which is also violation of an HC directive.
According to the directive, police cannot torture any accused during a remand and the accused has to be interrogated in a glass-room, she said.
A defence counsel must be present outside the transparent room as per the directive, she mentioned.
After holding hearing on the petition, the HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed on Thursday fixed the date for order.
On April 11, police arrested Mahmudur at the newspaper’s Karwan Bazar office and put him on 13 days’ remand through a local court in three cases.
He was sent to jail on Wednesday after his seven-day police remand in the Skype conversation case was over.
In the case filed with Tejgaon Police Station on December 13 last year, 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.
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