Samsuzzaman works as a staff correspondent at Prothom Elo. He works in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka. Earlier, several men in plain clothes, posing as members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), picked up Samsuzzaman from her house at Savar near Jahangirnagar University in the early hours of Wednesday.
About two hours before Samsuzzaman’s arrest, the first case under the Digital Security Act was registered against him at Tejgaon police station in the capital. In this case, the plaintiff Syed Mohammad Ghulam Kibaria is the general secretary of the Jubo League unit in ward number one. 11 of Dhaka North Municipal Corporation.