A Bangladesh newspaper editor, in prison facing various criminal charges, will be tried in a case related to attempted abduction and murder of the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A senior police officer, who is the investigation officer of the case, submitted an application with the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday to show Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of a Bengali daily Amar Desh , arrested in the case. He also prayed for a ten-day remand to quiz him.
The court fixed April 25 to hear the prayer in presence of Mr. Rahman, who was the acting editor of the daily, known to be fiercely anti-government and pro- opposition. A former advisor to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia, Mr. Rahman came to head the daily after buying its ownership. The engineer-turned political activist, accused of a slew of charges including sedition, has been in prison since April 2013. Police had sealed the newspaper’s press hours after his arrest. On Saturday, another pro-BNP editor and political activist Shafik Rehman was arrested in the same case.
