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BNP condemns death of writer Mushtaq
Staff Correspondent
26th February, 2021 11:08:08
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has protested and condemned the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison.
“People from all walks of life across the country have become outraged by Mushtaq s death. The death of a freelance writer on Facebook, a non-political, innocent like Mushtaq, is not a normal occurrence. The state power is involved with it. I strongly condemn and protest the death of Mushtaq Ahmed in jail under government custody,” he said, in a written statement, on Friday.
Expressing deep shock and praying for the departed soul of Mushtaq, Fakhrul said, “At the same time, we are demanding transparent, independent and neutral judicial investigation into the death of Mushtaq Ahmed during his imprisonment.”
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Dhaka, Feb 26 (efe-epa).- Several hundred students and political activists on Friday held demonstrations in Dhaka, protesting against the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody after being held in pre-trial detention for nine months.
Mushtaq was declared dead at a hospital in central Gazipur district on Thursday, hours after he fell unconscious at a high-security jail.
Protests began around 10 am on the Dhaka University campus before the demonstrators, mostly the members of Left-leaning student organizations, blocked the busy Shahbagh intersection.
The protesters withdrew their blockade after nearly two hours and announced a fresh agitation program for Mar.5.
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Incarcerated for over nine months, writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kishore were brought into the courtroom 11 days ago and produced before a judge.
Nobody knew they would suddenly be brought to court not even their families, who have not seen them face-to-face since their arrests, because of Covid-19 regulations about visitors at the country s prisons.
Their families say this was their first trip out of prison, since they were both produced before a courthouse last year on May 6 and arrested under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
This newspaper s court reporter, present in the courtroom, described them as looking gaunt and haggard, their clothes hanging loose off their frames, as they shuffled in. They were, however, not in handcuffs like many of the other prisoners.