Awami League Leader Arrested at Airport Upon Return from US With Wife

Staff Reporter

Mohammad Gias Uddin, former vice-president of Chattogram North District Awami League and former chairman of Mirsarai Upazila Parishad, was arrested by Airport Police Station at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport upon his return from the United States.

On Friday, 23 May, at around 5 AM, he was arrested in a case filed by Mirsarai Police Station while returning with his wife from the US.

Tahmina Gias, wife of Awami League leader Gias Uddin, said they were returning to the country after staying in America for nearly a year. Upon disembarking from the flight at Shahjalal International Airport, immigration police arrested Gias Uddin. Police then took him to Mirsarai.

Mirsarai Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Atiqur Rahman said Awami League leader Gias Uddin was detained by airport immigration police early Friday morning. A police team has been sent to Dhaka to bring him back. He faces five cases at the police station.

Mirsarai Police Station’s Duty Officer SI Rajia Akter confirmed the arrest of the former upazila chairman and Awami League leader at the airport.