Law enforcers take Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, to a court in the capital on Thursday. Photo: STAR
The arrest came almost four months after Rahman was sued, in line with a High Court directive, for publishing reports on Skype conversation between former International Crimes Tribunal chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq and an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert, Ahmed Ziauddin, last year.
A team from Detective Branch of police picked him up around 9:00am at the newspaper office where Rahman had been staying since filing of the case.
He was kept at the DB headquarters on Minto Road before being produced before the court.
The arrest triggered mixed reaction with a group of journalists demanding his release, terming it as an attack on press freedom, while other groups hailing it.
Many groups including the Shahbagh Gonojagoron Mancha demanded that law enforcers arrested Rahman for inciting religious fanaticism by reprinting blogs and social media posts defaming Islam and blaming Shahbagh activists for writing those.
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Detectives took Mahmudur Rahman to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka around 2:45pm with a prayer for placing him on 30-day remand in three cases.
The arrestee did not appoint a lawyer to defend him and refrained from seeking bail.
He opposed the remand prayer.
After hearing the arguments, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Islam placed Rahman on a seven-day remand in a case filed for publishing reports on Skype conversation which was filed with Tejgaon Police Station.
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