Adilur Rahman. Star file photo
Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of rights organisation Odhikar, was released on bail on Friday two months after his arrest.
Adilur walked out of Kashimpur jail in Gazipur around 10:30am, Jailor Abdul Kudddus told our Gazipur correspondent.
The High Court on Tuesday granted him bail for six months in a case filed for publishing a “false report” .
Adilur was arrested on August 10 in the case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 for publishing a “false report” on the crackdown on Hefajat-e Islam in the capital’s Motijheel area on May 5.
The report published on Odhikar website claimed 61 people were killed during the crackdown.
On May 5, law enforcers flushed out several thousand Hefajat activists who took to the streets and resorted to violence following a Dhaka siege programme.
Source: The Daily Star
