BNP Secretary Total Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir this day (30 September) demanded the immediate and unconditional free up of the outdated chairman of the Board of Funding and Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman.
He hoped the most up-to-date duration in-between govt will grant him bail and make certain justice for a ‘pro-democracy journalist’.
“I am strongly traumatic the immediate withdrawal of the unsuitable cases filed against Mahmudur Rahman and his unconditional free up,” the BNP secretary fashioned talked about in an announcement.
He moreover strongly condemned and protested the incident of sending Mahmudur Rahman to detention center, no longer granting him bail.
Within the statement, Mirza Fakhrul talked about Mahdudur Rahman is a neatly-known journalist of the nation and he suffered unpleasant torture all the draw by the deposed dictatorial regime.
A nervousness was once designed to endanger his existence because the ferocious attacks of the fascist did now not comprise him, talked about the BNP leader.
“Sheikh Hasina has tried to extinguish him in my conception as a consequence of his courageous and scathing writings in pick on of democracy. The Awami fascist govt filed many unsuitable and politically motivated cases against him and subjected him to unspeakable oppression by giving him a dictated sentence,” he added.
On the opposite hand, the journalist has no longer been shy of the bloody eyes of the Awami govt and has remained steadfast in his principles and ideals. Mahmudur Rahman believes within the principles of democracy, pluralism and respects completely different opinions, Mirza Fakhrul added.
“Even within the face of the aggressive assault of Awami authoritarianism, he did now not bow down. The day earlier than this day (29 September) injustice was once done to him by sending him to detention center, no longer granting him bail in a unsuitable case. He’s going to must were granted bail,” talked about the BNP Secretary Total.
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered Mahmudur Rahman, editor of the now-defunct Amar Desh, to be sent to detention center after he surrendered in a case related to the kidnapping and attempted extinguish of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of outdated High Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Earlier, Mahmudur Rahman returned to Bangladesh on Friday morning, following over five and a half years in self-imposed exile.
Rahman has long been a critic of the then Awami League govt, going by over 124 cases. Each he and his wife were sentenced to seven years in detention center in a single of those cases. Rahman was once arrested in June 2010 and all all over again in April 2013, all the draw by which the government forced the closure of Amar Desh in print.
