Writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s autopsy completed
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Autopsy of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in police custody last night, has been completed at Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital morgue.
The autopsy ended at 12:30pm.
Syed Bayezid, sub-inspector of Joydevpur Police Station in Gazipur who prepared the inquest report said Mushtaq s inquest report was prepared at 10:30am today. Sores were found in the middle of his back. Reddish-black small spots were found on his right and left hands, he added.
He suspects that the wounds and spots may have occurred while taking the body to the hospital with the ambulance.
Gazipur Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 26 Feb 2021 08:42 PM BdST
Updated: 26 Feb 2021 09:20 PM BdST Members of various leftist student organisations block the Shahbagh intersection during a protest against the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail following his arrest in a Digital Security Act case, Feb 26, 2021. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
The prison authorities have started a case over the “unnatural” death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail nearly 10 months after his arrest on charges pressed under the Digital Security Act. );
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Md Gias Uddin, senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur High Security Prison, initiated the case at Gazipur Sadar Police Station on Friday.
Police Sub-Inspector Syed Bayezid, who made the inquest report in the presence of Gazipur Executive Magistrate and Assistant Md Wasim Uz Zaman Chowdhury in the morning, said Mushtaq had scars of possibly past infection on his back.
Protests in Dhaka after writer s death in jail
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Protests erupted in Dhaka after writer and blogger Mushtaq Ahmed, denied bail six times, died in Kashimpur jail. (Twitter). Image Source: IANS News
Dhaka, Feb 26 : Protests erupted in Dhaka after writer and blogger Mushtaq Ahmed, denied bail six times, died in Kashimpur jail.
Blaming the government for the death and demanded repeal of the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA), protesters threatened to lay siege to the Home Ministry on March 1.
Ahmed, 53, used to write under the pen name Michael Kumir Thakur and was critical on social media of the government s handling of the pandemic. His book Kumir (crocodile) Chasher Diary was published in November 2018, and he was working on another book.