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| Tahrir regional commander held in Ctg |
| 2010-05-31 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a regional commander of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir in the city's Mohammadpur area on Saturday night. Police also seized 500 anti-government leaflets, a laptop and two mobile phones from his possession. The arrestee was identified as Amiruzzaman Parvez, 31 of Toyubbag Residential area under Panchlaish Police Station. Assistant Commissioner (AC) of DB Jahangir Alam said acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police raided the area at around 10:00pm and arrested Parvez, while his fellow Tahrir-men Sharif, Ershad and Khaled Saifullah managed to escape. The DB official said Parvez was the Chittagong regional commander of the banned unit and led the impromptu procession the organisation brought out at city's Jamal Khan on April 15. However, Parvez claimed he was not the leader of the organisation but he had been supporting it since 2005. He said he knew its regional Coordinator Sheikh Omar Sharif Al Maruf Russel and participated in a number of seminars with him and the April 15th procession. Police unearthed the den of Russel at Khulshi on May 16 and found the traces of his activities. Russel is absconding since then, sources said. |
| Posted by:Fred |