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Published: 06 Mar 2021 04:00 PM BdST
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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says a menacing force within the government is responsible for the persecution of any dissenting voices. );
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His remarks came amid growing calls from leftist student organisations for the repeal of the Digital Security Act following the arrest and subsequent death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail in a case under the act.
The senior BNP leader said Mushtaq was imprisoned ‘simply because of writing something’ while cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was in jail ‘just because of drawing cartoons’.
“If you open up today’s newspaper you’ll see that according to a statement Kishore gave after getting out of jail, inhuman torture is being carried out by a group within the government to erase. whoever is opposing the government,” Fakhrul said in a meeting on Saturday.