RAB has filed two cases against Rasel Bin Sattar who they claim is responsible for circulating the al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message in Bangladesh.
One of the cases filed under Information and Communication Technology Act accuse him of propagating ‘false and defamatory information and photographs’ against the government and its head.
The other case accuses him of sedition.
Police will produce Rasel in court and seek a remand for 15 days to question him, said Sub-Inspector Abdullah Al Tayabir, Investigation Officer of Tangail Police.
RAB-12 Deputy Assistant Director Kamal Hossain filed the two cases with Tangail Model Police Station on Tuesday night before handing over the 21-year old university student to police, said its OC Nazrul Islam.
Md Rasel bin Sattar Khan, a final-year student at Tangail Textile Institute, was arrested by RAB from Tangail’s Majhiparha at 5:30am on Tuesday.
The youth was found to be in possession of substantial amount of Jihadi literature.
Rasel told media later at the RAB headquarters that he circulated the Zawahiri clip after he found it on blog, Dawahilallah.
Rasel said he is a blogger who runs several extremist blogs such as ‘Amar Bhabna’ and ‘Amar Desh’ and is an administrator of pro-Jamaat Facebook page ‘Basherkella-2.’
He also works as a web developer.
Rasel, however, denied any association with Al-Qaeda.
Zawahiri’s audio-clip, which RAB said was originally uploaded in November last year, was laced with videos of police action in Bangladesh.
In the message, Al-Zawahiri calls Bangladesh ‘a huge prison’ and asks its Muslims to start an ‘intifada’ [uprising] against the ‘secular’ government and other enemies of Islam.
Source: Bd news24