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Shafik Rehman arrested in sedition case
Observer Online Report
Published :Saturday, 16 April, 2016,  Time : 11:19 AM  View Count : 74
Journalist Shafik Rehman has been arrested in a sedition case filed with Paltan police in 2015.

Police have confirmed the arrest.

Earlier, detectives picked him up from his Eskaton residence in the capital at about 7:30pm on Saturday.
 
bdnews24.com adds : Shafik's wife Taleya Rehman said that some men claiming to be police detectives came to their home around 7:30am.

“They entered our house and said Shafik will have to go with them. Then they took him away," she said.

Taleya is the executive director of 'Democracy Watch' and a former BBC journalist.

Following her claim, bdnews24.com contacted Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Joint Commissioner Krishna Pada Ray around 10am, who said he had 'no knowledge of any such incident'.

Half an hour later, DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Maruf Hossain Sardar told bdnews24.com, “Shafik Rehman has been arrested in a sedition case filed in 2015 at Paltan Police Station.”

Rehman has been taken to the DB office in the city’s Minto Road. Traffic on the road was stopped after a while.

The journalist, known to be close to the BNP, has worked in various media houses, but hit the limelight after becoming editor of weekly Jaijaidin in the 1980s.

Rehman had to leave Bangladesh facing the wrath of then military dictator HM Ershad but returned home after Ershad was dethroned.

A decade later, the journalist established close relationship with the BNP and was seen at events addressed by BNP chief Khaleda Zia.

Rehman, who has also worked in BBC, launched Daily Jaijaidin, but sold the newspaper in 2006 after a brief foray into the market.

He currently produces and anchors a TV programme named 'Lal Golap' (Red Rose).

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