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Farabi remanded in another ICT case |
2015-03-26 |
[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court yesterday placed banned Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... leader Shafiur Rahman Farabi, the key suspect in secular writer Avijit Roy murder, on a five-day remand in a case filed last year for defaming the prime minister. Metropolitan Magistrate Md Hasibul Haque passed the order after Sub-Inspector Abdur Rouf produced Farabi before it. The case was filed on July 28 last year with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police under the Information and Communication Technology Act for making derogatory remarks about Prime Minister ![]() the Battling Begums.. on Facebook. The Rapid Action Battalion ![]() Please don't kill me! Farabi on March 2 for his alleged involvement in the attack on US citizen Avijit Roy, also the founder of Mukto-Mona blog, and his wife, co-blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonya on February 26. Avijit died in a hospital the same night while critically injured Bonya was flown to USA after receiving treatment in the capital. After his arrest, Farabi denied his involvement, but mentioned that the science writer had got what he deserved for mocking religion. Elite force RAB claimed that they had proof of Farabi's involvement with the killing. On March 3, a Dhaka court placed him on 10-day remand in the murder case filed with Shahbagh police by Avijit's father Prof Ajoy Roy. He was remanded for five more days on March 14 in a fresh case filed against him for giving death threats to Avijit, bloggers Asif Mohiuddin and Parvez Alam, and a newspaper editor on Facebook. Farabi was placed on a four-day remand on March 20 in the same case. |
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