The general secretary of the ruling party and a ranking cabinet minister asserted that “it was not a simple mistake but a criminal offence”. He argued that “in any advanced democratic country if such kind of child exploitation had happened, licence of the media would have been cancelled”.
Nearly 35 hours after he was picked up from home, Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams was yesterday produced before a Dhaka court that sent him to jail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
The timeline of arresting Prothom Alo journalist Samsuzzaman Shams is very telling. According to police documents, a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams was registered with Tejgaon police station at 2:15 am.