Police will arrest more protesters
The police will continue the operation against those who are trying to create anarchic situation spreading 'rumors' in social media. As part of this, police arrested three people, including a joint convenor of the Kota reform movement on Wednesday.
The arrestees are: Ahmad Hossain (19), Nazmus Shakib (24) and Sufi scientist Department of Eden Women's College, Lutfun Nahar alias Luma. Lutfun was arrested from Sirajganj by a team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Police and local police-police 'joint drive' from Dhaka.
On the previous night, Sheikh Tasnim Afroz, a resident student of Shamsunnahar Hall of Dhaka University, picked up the name of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DB). After being confined for five hours, he got away with a bargain. There is nothing to know about the charges against him. Due to police restriction, Tasnim did not tell anyone, his friends said in the first light. His family was also warned. Tasnim took his father to his workplace. Nobody can tell when he will return to the university again. Pulim says that Sheikh Tasnim Afroz had an objectionable post in his language on Facebook. That is why he was picked up.
There are criticisms of arrest and other legal procedures followed by social media. However, the police say they are determined to prevent rumors. Police Headquarters spokesman and assistant inspector general Sohel Rana said, "We took the matter seriously. We have applied all the mechanisms in the police hand to prevent rumors. We want to set an example by bringing those rumors about the movement of students to demand safe roads, under the law. " In the first light, he said, the police headquarters are working to coordinate a cell. In the future, this cell will work to stop anti-state propaganda.
Yesterday, the Police Crime Investigation Department (CID) and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) announced the continuation of the operation. Dhaka DMP said on its own webport, said, "There are 51 cases filed with different police stations in the wake of violent incidents of violence and social media incidents in the wake of the killing of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College in the wake of the road accident. So far 97 people have been arrested in these cases. Until yesterday, a case was filed against 29 people under the Information and Communication Technology Act. So far 16 people have been arrested. CID requests on Facebook page to notify, post, photograph or comment like post, photo or video that provokes inconsiderate propaganda and state image.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch said in a statement yesterday that the authorities continued the operation to arrest those who criticized the government's violent campaign in peaceful gatherings, and criticized the social media. This is mainly arresting students and journalists participating in the movement. There has been a panic situation and people are afraid to speak.