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Probes find Mushtaq’s death natural: Kamal
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DHAKA, Mar 4, 2021 (BSS) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said several probes have found that Mustaque’s death in jail custody was natural.
“Three probe committees revealed that writer Mustaque Ahmed died in the jail naturally,” he told reporters at his ministry office at Bangladesh Secretariat.
Kamal said Mustaque fell sick when he went to washroom and then medical facilities were provided to him.
Later, Mustaque was taken to Shaheed Tajuddin Medical College Hospital for better treatment, but he breathed his last there, he added.
The minister said the Home Ministry formed a probe committee headed by an additional secretary on February 27, Gazipur District Administration and Department of Prisons also formed separate committee immediately for investigating into the matter.
By Sumon Corraya
Dissident writer Mushtaq Ahmed passed away yesterday at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Dhaka a few days after suffering a heart attack in his cell at the Kashimpur High Security Prison.
At least, that is the official version released by the authorities; however, a doctor at the hospital claims Ahmed was already dead when he arrived at the hospital, after being he was removed from his prison cell.
Security forces arrested him last May and indicted him for violating the Digital Security Act after he criticised the Government of Bangladesh in a Facebook post.
In it, the intellectual complained that certain VIPs were getting special priority in COVID-19 treatment and that some doctors were not getting paid. The 53-year-old was also very critical of the government on a number of issues.
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