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| Hizb ut-Tahrir treasurer, 5 activists held |
| 2010-12-23 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Police last night jugged six members of banned Islamic outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir, Bangladesh, including its treasurer from the city's Uttara and recovered two petrol bombs from their possession. The arrestees are Parvez Ahmmed of Comilla, treasurer of the banned organisation; Faisal Kabir of Mymensingh; Masud Parvez of Shariyatpur; Erfan Ahmed, of Brahmanbaria; Mahfuzur Rahman, of Laxmipur, and Maksudur Rahman of Chittagong. Acting on a tip-off, Uttara police jugged the six from a house at section-12 of Uttara around 9:00pm and recovered two bombs and some banned publications, said Khandaker Rezaul Hasan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Uttara Police Station. The OC said police jugged them for carrying out activities for the banned outfit and planning anti-state activities. Two separate cases-- one for possessing explosives and another under the Anti-Terrorism Act-- were filed against them, the OC added. The government banned Hizb ut-Tahrir on October 22, 2008. On July 8 last year, Detective Branch of police jugged Syed Golam Maola, who introduced the religion-based party in the country, from the capital's Elephant Road. Party chief Mohiuddin Ahmed was jugged on April 20 last year from Green Road. Maola is a professor of management department of Dhaka University (DU) and Mohiuddin is an associate professor of the Institute of Business Administration of DU. Both Maola and Mohiuddin are accused in three cases filed with Uttara Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act. |
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