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Journalist Rozina Gets Bail Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Information Mnister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the Rozina issue was an unwanted incident and hoped all the misunderstanding will be solved after her bail. We have to work, we have to ensure free flow of information and at the same time, we have to obey the law, said the minister during a meeting with leaders of different journalist organisations at his office in the secretariat.
Former and current leaders of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka Union of Journalists, Jatiya Press Club, Broadcast Journalist Centre, Dhaka Reporters Unity and Editors Forum took part in the meeting.
Six held over protesting Mushtaq’s death get bail
A cop drags a protester away after police dispersed a torchlight procession brought out in the capital’s Shahbagh intersection area yesterday evening protesting the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody. The protesters demanded scrapping of the controversial Digital Security Act . Photo: Palash Khan/file Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Six out of seven leftist student leaders and activists who were arrested following the protests over writer Mushtaq Ahmed s death in custody got bail yesterday.
A Dhaka court granted bail to the six student leaders and activists in connection with a case filed over assaulting and preventing policemen from discharging their duties in Shahbagh on February 26.
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A Dhaka court has bailed six of the seven demonstrators arrested after clashes with the police during a torch procession demanding investigation into writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in jail custody and repeal of the Digital Security Act. );
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Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury granted them bail after hearing the petitions of the six accused on Sunday.
They are Tamjid Haider, Nozib Amir Chowdhury Joy, Akib Ahmed, Arafat Saad, Nazifa Jannat and Joyoti Chakrabarty.No bail petition was filed for another accused - ASM Tanjimur Rahman.
Arafat is involved with the Samajtantrik Chhatra Front while the rest are members of Bangladesh Students’ Union.
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Dhaka, Mar 1 (efe-epa) – Protests continued for the fourth day in Bangladesh on Monday following the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody amid calls for a review of the controversial Digital Security Act.
Mushtaq, detained in May and charged under the act for “spreading rumors” on social media, was declared dead at a hospital in the central Gazipur district on Thursday, hours after he fell unconscious at a high-security prison.
Different political, rights and student organizations have been protesting Mushtaq’s death since Friday
Several hundred activists of left-leaning student groups brought out a procession on Monday from the campus of Dhaka University, the main public university of the country, protesting the scribe’s death.