A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted a three-day police remand for daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed with Ramna Police Station.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-Ur Rashid passed the order at about 12:30 pm as sub-inspector Mir Rezaul Islam of Ramna thana, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Mahmudur Rahman before the court with a 10-day remand plea.
Mahmudur Rahman, who represented himself in the hearing, said he would not plead for canceling remand or seek bail because he was aware of his fate.
On February 22, some people, instigated by a report published in the daily Amar Desh against Ganajagaran Mancha at Shahbagh in the city, proceeded to break the mancha.
As police obstructed the unruly people on the way, this triggered a fierce clash during which several vehicles were damaged and few crude bombs exploded.
Later, Ramna thana police filed a case against many people, including Mahmudur Rahman, on charge of vandalizing, torching vehicles, exploding crude bombs and obstructing police from discharging their duties.
Source: UNB Connect
Remands are an interrogation tool reserved for hard core criminals. This is how remand is granted in a civilized democratic society.
Mahmudur Rahman may be a strong critique, not always wrongly though, of the government but he is hardly a criminal and therefore repeated remands that have been granted to him by our judicial system defy all legal justification, also at a time, when he is not in the best of his health. This is barbarism at its ugliest and politics at its nastiest!
Calculated silence of our democracy loving civil society at this heinous act is not only reprehensible but another sign of the moral low that our beloved country has plunged itself into..