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| SUST Ansarullah leader, 19 Jamaat-Shibir men among 22 held |
| 2016-07-20 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Two university students detained in Sylhet on Monday for their suspected involvement in holy warrior activities were brought to Dhaka yesterday. Abdul Aziz, a final year student of industrial and production engineering (IPE) department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, was picked up from the campus in the afternoon. Police say he is the coordinator of banned holy warrior outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team at SUST. The other nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by a team of Counter-Terrorism And Transnational Crimes unit is Mahmud Chowdhury, a final year student of Leading University. A former student of Sylhet Cadet College, Aziz did not attend his classes last year and resumed studies this year. DMP Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman said: "We have information that Abdul Aziz worked as a coordinator of Ansarullah Bangla Team at the university. We have detained him for further questioning." Ansarullah members are accused of killing at least 11 secularist writers and publishers and two LGBT rights activists since 2013. Two of the victims ‐ Ananta Bijoy Das and Nazimuddin Samad ‐ are from Sylhet. On the other hand, Mahmud is a resident of the Sylhet city’s Jalalabad area. He was an LLM student. Leading University Vice-Chancellor Prof Kamruzzaman Chowdhury confirmed the arrest of Mahmud to the Dhaka Tribune. Wishing to be unnamed, a LLM student said that Mahmud had been picked up from an exam hall. A high official of Sylhet Metropolitan Police said that the duo had been under the CTTC unit’s surveillance for a long time. SUST Proctor Rashedul Islam said: "We received a letter from the government on Tuesday [yesterday] asking for information on the students who have remained absent for long. "We have formed a body under my leadership and letters have been sent to all departments seeking information." 19 Jamaat-Shibir men detained Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... police yesterday detained 19 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... with improvised bombs and sharp weapons from Dhaka’s Khilgaon. The detainees include Shibir’s Khilgaon unit President Md Motaher Hossain and General Secretary M A Razzak. Police also detained building owner Reazul Karim. Inspector (investigation) Asaduzzaman told the Dhaka Tribune that they were detained in a raid at a hostel near Comilla Hotel in Khilgaon Block A area early yesterday. DMP Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman said: "We recovered a large number of jihadi books, seven improvised bombs, four machetes and a computer from their possessions." |
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