26 Jamaat leaders held in Satkhira: Police Excess Has No limit Now
Police arrested 26 leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami in a house at Sora village in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Saturday.Alamgri Hossain, officer-in-charge of Shyamnagar Police Station, said the Jamaat leaders, all rokons of the organisation, were arrested while holding a “clandestine” meeting to carry out subversive activities against the state.
The arrested include Shyamnagar upazila unit nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat Maulana Oheduzzaman, Alamgir Kabir, Israfil, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Mannan, Mofazzal Hossain, Lutfar Rahman, Rafiqul Islam, Aminur Rahman, Arafat Hossain, Motaleb Hossain, Abdur Rahman, Siddique Gazi, Abu Bakkar Gazi, Hafizur Rahman, Imam Hossain and Abdul Kalam.The OC said acting on a tip-off they conducted a drive at the house of Jamaat leader Abdul Jalil in the evening and arrested them.The arrested will be charged with sedition, he added.
We deplore such police action. They are doing it all the time, particularly against Jamaate Islami.What is illegal if members of a legal political party hold a meeting in a house. This is the right of all organization under the law and the constitution. We ask the government and the police authorities to restrain the field level officers. The press should also write against such anti-democratic action. Unfortunately leftist and secular press have also become too partisan. As a result the police audacity has increased. A common front of press could stop lot of injustice.
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