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| Bangla HR activist arrested for extortion | |
| 2006-03-17 | |
| FENI, Mar 16: President of Feni district Human Rights Review Society Mizanur Rahman Mister and his three accomplices were arrested by RAB on Wednesday night on charge of extortion, reorts UNB. Handed over to the police Mizanur was today produced before the court that rejected his bail petition and sent to the prison. RAB said substantial documents including obscene photographs of men and women were seized from the house of Mizanur Rahman. Those were believed used to blackmail and extortion. Besides, allegations of extortion and harassment of people identifying himself as Human Rights leader and journalist were received against Mizanur, RAB added. Khonkar Shamsul Huda of Sonagazi had accused Mizanur, also JASAS president of Sonagazi upazila and chairman of Palli Daridra Unyan Sangstha, a local NGO, of taking Tk 3.12 lakh from him on December 2, 2004. When asked for return of the money Mizanur, Khurshid Alam, Maksud and Jahangir forcibly took him to a residential hotel. They got his signature on plain revenue papers at gunpoint. Some residents however told a different story. Requesting anonymity they said complainant Shamsul Huda knew the art of calling genie. Many senior officials of RAB are connected with Huda for his genie power and were influenced by him to take action against Mizanur Rahman.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |