A Dhaka courtroom on the quiet time (29 September) ordered Mahmudur Rahman, editor of the now-defunct Amar Desh, to be despatched to jail after he surrendered in a case associated to the abduction and tried homicide of Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure, son of old prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Dhaka Extra Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque handed the roar after rejecting Rahman’s bail plea, consistent with plaintiff’s attorney Syed Joynul Abedin.
Mahmudur Rahman seemed in courtroom around 10:50am, surrendering by approach to his attorneys with a quiz for bail.
On the choice hand, after hearing arguments from all aspects, the courtroom denied the bail and despatched him to jail.
Earlier, on 17 September 2023, Dhaka Extra Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor had sentenced Mahmudur Rahman to seven years in penal advanced in the identical case. Aged journalist Shafik Rehman and three others had been also sentenced to the identical penalty.
Mahmudur Rahman returned to Bangladesh on Friday morning, following over five and a half years in self-imposed exile.
Rahman has prolonged been a critic of the then Awami League authorities, facing over 124 circumstances. Both he and his wife had been sentenced to seven years in penal advanced in a single in all those circumstances.
Rahman used to be arrested in June 2010 and again in April 2013, all by which the authorities shut down Amar Desh.
