Sangram news editor Shahadat sent to jail

Earlier, Shahadat surrendered before the court seeking bail.

On October 22, Ruhul Amin Gazi, the daily's chief reporter and  president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), was sent to jail by a court in the same case.

On December 13, 2019, freedom-fighter commander Mohammad Afzal Hossain filed a case under the Digital Security Act against eight people including the daily's editor Abul Asad and chief reporter Ruhul Amin Gazi.

The case filed was over a report run by the Dainik Sangram on December 12, 2019, headlined "Today is the sixth martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Abdul Quader Molla."

Quader Molla, former assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged at the old Dhaka Central Jail on December 12, 2013 in a case over committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

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