Samsuzzaman, the staff correspondent of the country’s leading Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, was dragged from his bed at 4:00 am yesterday (March 29) at his home in a north-western suburb of the capital Dhaka by a team of eight policemen. sent to arrest.
They left with her, her laptop, a computer storage device and two phones, a relative who was present at the time told RSF.
He showed no warrant when police arrested him, but the Ministry of the Interior finally admitted a few hours later that he had been arrested under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for writing a “false, fabricated and maliciously motivated” article . He was finally sent to jail this morning (March 30).