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B'desh police arrest 11 for links with militants
Anisur Rahman
Dhaka, Sept 19 (PTI) Bangladesh police have arrested 11 people, including three university teachers for suspected links with militants, officials said here Friday.
They said Bangladesh coordinator of extreme right-wing
Hizb ut-Tahrir, Syed Golam Mowla, who teaches management at
the Dhaka University and ten ten of his cohorts were arrested
late on Thursday from northwestern Rajsahi city.
"We arrested them on suspicion of encouraging militancy
in the country.. We are investigating their activities,"
Rajshahi police commissioner Mahbub Mohsin said, adding
that they are charged with distribution of political and
anti-government leaflets defying emergency rules in the
country.
Police said the Hizb ut-Tahrir men were distributing
leaflets that calls for the establishment of their self-styled
Khilafat rule by dethroning the present government, who
according to them "have discarded the Quran and the Sunnah" in
this holy month of Ramzan.
The leaflets criticised sending forces to United Nations
Peace Keeping missions to protect "enemies" instead of
"turning them into the flag bearers of Islam".
Two of the arrested Tahrir leaders taught in two private
universities in Dhaka while others are college students.
The Hizb ut-Tahrir men were arrested on their arrival at
the Rajshahi Press Club to hold a news conference and later on
sent to jail on a court order.
However, the Tahrir leaders had, earlier, told
newspersons at the police custody that their outfit was not
linked with militancy and that they organised the press
conference to clear their position on the charges.
"We want to establish Islamic rule through a truly
democratic way and abiding by the law of the land," Mowla
said.
Officials said the organisation was banned in 20
countries across the Middle East, Europe and Asia but was
freely operating in Bangladesh for the past several years and
promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred on its website.
Hizb ut-Tahrir was formed by Islamic thinker Tokiuddin Al
Nakhani in 1953 in Jerusalem, five years after Israel captured
Palestine while its members were believed to have links with
Al Qaeda. PTI AR
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Dhaka, Sept 19 (PTI) Bangladesh police have arrested 11 people, including three university teachers for suspected links with militants, officials said here Friday.
They said Bangladesh coordinator of extreme right-wing
Hizb ut-Tahrir, Syed Golam Mowla, who teaches management at
the Dhaka University and ten ten of his cohorts were arrested
late on Thursday from northwestern Rajsahi city.
"We arrested them on suspicion of encouraging militancy
in the country.. We are investigating their activities,"
Rajshahi police commissioner Mahbub Mohsin said, adding
that they are charged with distribution of political and
anti-government leaflets defying emergency rules in the
country.
Police said the Hizb ut-Tahrir men were distributing
leaflets that calls for the establishment of their self-styled
Khilafat rule by dethroning the present government, who
according to them "have discarded the Quran and the Sunnah" in
this holy month of Ramzan.
The leaflets criticised sending forces to United Nations
Peace Keeping missions to protect "enemies" instead of
"turning them into the flag bearers of Islam".
Two of the arrested Tahrir leaders taught in two private
universities in Dhaka while others are college students.
The Hizb ut-Tahrir men were arrested on their arrival at
the Rajshahi Press Club to hold a news conference and later on
sent to jail on a court order.
However, the Tahrir leaders had, earlier, told
newspersons at the police custody that their outfit was not
linked with militancy and that they organised the press
conference to clear their position on the charges.
"We want to establish Islamic rule through a truly
democratic way and abiding by the law of the land," Mowla
said.
Officials said the organisation was banned in 20
countries across the Middle East, Europe and Asia but was
freely operating in Bangladesh for the past several years and
promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred on its website.
Hizb ut-Tahrir was formed by Islamic thinker Tokiuddin Al
Nakhani in 1953 in Jerusalem, five years after Israel captured
Palestine while its members were believed to have links with
Al Qaeda. PTI AR
KNO
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