A Dhaka court has placed Refayat Ahmed, the admin of Facebook-based social campaigning page Moja losss?, on a two-day remand on Friday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Waezkuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order in the afternoon when the police produced Refayat before his court with a five-day remand plea.
A Dhaka court has placed Refayat Ahmed, the admin of Facebook-based social campaigning page Moja losss?, on a two-day remand on Friday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Waezkuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order in the afternoon when the police produced Refayat before his court with a five-day remand plea.
Earlier on Thursday, the members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested Refayat on charge of spreading anti-state propaganda.
He was picked up from the capital’s Bashundhara Residential area around 4:30pm, soon after the popular social networking site Facebook was unblocked in Bangladesh after 22 days.
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RAB legal and media wing Assistant Director Major Maksudul Alam told the Dhaka Tribune: “He was arrested for spreading anti-state propaganda through his Facebook fun page Moja losss?”
Later, he was handed over to the Vatara police.
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Earlier in April this year, the page which has been vocal against the sexual attacks on women at TSC that took place on Pohela Boishakh, has announced that they will be closing down due to death threats.
Following the incident at the TSC of Dhaka University, the page identified members involved in the attack via screenshots from the TV footages released.
Later, the page updated a status where they indicated they were being threatened. However, when contacted, they did not respond to queries from the Dhaka Tribune.
They announced that they will change its entire admin panel following the death threats.
The page, now having over 500,000 fans, started in 2012 as an entertainment page two years ago and became popular with their jokes and commentaries on social issues. It often worked as crime busters by circulating photos of crime scenes and suspects.
Moja losss?’s twitter account, having 6190 followers, also posts photos, jokes and commentaries on different social issues.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
