Newsprint EDITOR FREED Abaft THREE MONTHS, IMMEDIATELY RE-ARRESTED - REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS

Newsprint editor freed afterward trey months, instantly re-arrested

Haque was arrested at his Dhaka dwelling on Xxx one July on a bearing of extortion that was wholly fictitious, as both the identicalness and accost of the complainant sour bent be untrue. Piece held, two otc extortion complaints were brought against him which were nil more farther attempts to still him, local journalists say.

“ We firmly condemn Mohammad Ekramul Haque’s indictment and imprisonment on false accusations, ” Reporters Without Borders said. “ His arrest is indicative of the lengths to which the authorities will attend eliminate a troublesome whistleblower on Bangladesh’s corruption problems. ”

“We are umbrageous by Haque’s new catch on the selfsame day of his waiver afterward ternary months in prison on trumped-up charges,” Reporters Without Borders aforementioned. “How could the discriminative government reserve a diarist to be held for Xc years on the groundwork of intelligibly fictitious accusations then appropriate him to be re-arrested on the groundwork of a alike charge filed on the day he was freed?

“The gamy lawcourt should shew about discernment and not enter therein intelligibly orchestrated juridical torment of Haque. We care the juridical government against any endeavor to sustain his detainment indefinitely.”

Promulgated on Friday Iv November 2011.

Reporters Without Borders securely condemns the hold of Mohammad Ekramul Haque . the proprietor and editor of the on-line paper, Sheershanews.com and the hebdomadal Sheersha Kagoj . on manifestly trumped-up charges of extortion. Arrested at his Dakha house at Iv a.m. on Xxx one July by plain-clothes patrol who showed no guarantee, he was transferred to a prison on Tercet Lordly.

But the Sheershanews.com staff reported in a One August handout that there is no travel agency of that name and accused to government of trying silence Haque because of his articles about corruption.

Everything most the lawsuit is foreign, including the fact that the master plaintiff’s identicalness is mistaken. A sealed Gias Uddin Talukder, claiming to be the possessor of the Balaka locomotion means, accused Haque of sinister to write a negative report about the agency if Talukder refused to pay 26,000 dollars.

On-line paper editor detained on trumped-up charges

The Dhaka heights court’s Xx fin October edict for Haque to be released on bond was carried out on One November. Notwithstanding, he was straightaway re-arrested on the groundwork of a new ailment against him filed originally that day at the Ramna constabulary post. Interpreted into hold for an initial menses of leastways two years, he is reportedly beingness held at the Dhaka metropolitan constabulary “Detective Subdivision,” which has been concerned in cases of torturing and deterrence.

Neither Sheershanews.com word nor Sheersha Kagoj is presently useable. Local journalists study that the government consistent them unsympathetic kill.

The new ailment was filed by tax examiner Habibur Rahman, who has accused Haque of sledding to his billet on 12 June and demanding monthly payments of 100,000 taka (955 euros) reciprocally for not publication articles accusive him of putrescence. In his ill, Rahman aforementioned that, because he was frightened, he paying him 5,000 taka (46 euros) on the berth.

A charge of sexual harassment was brought against Haque last month but it was dropped after the alleged plaintiff did not prove in court and later proved to be fictitious.

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to discover that Mohammad Ekramul Haque . the proprietor and editor of the Sheershanews.com intelligence site and the hebdomadally Sheersha Kagoj . was re-arrested on One November now later organism released on bond by decree of the Dacca high-pitched tribunal.

Haque was blindfolded when he was taken on Thirty one July to Kalabagan police station by police officers, who also manhandled members of his family. After two days in police custody, he was taken before a Dakha court, which refused his request for release on bail. After two more days in police custody, he was transferred to prison on Three August without any information being given about the length of time he is supposed to spend there.

Two other extortion complaints that have been brought against Haque are also regarded by local journalists as attempts to silence him. One of the complaints was filed on One August by Emdadul Haque, the secretary of a government employees’ association. The third complaint, filed by Mohammad Shahidul Islam, accuses Mohammad Ekramul Haque, his wife and the editor of another newspaper of blackmail.

The authorities rescinded the accreditation of Sheershanews.com and Sheersha Kagoj fortnight ago, while Haque was on a list of Ten journalists whose accreditation was suspended in a letter issued by the government’s Press Information Department on Fourteen July. Both Sheersha Kagoj . launched in 2003, and Sheershanews.com . launched in 2009, covered corruption.

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