DB picks up journalist Shawkat Mahmud from his house without filing a case

Staff Correspondent

Journalist Shawkat Mahmud, former president of the National Press Club and Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), has been detained.

On Sunday, December 7, the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) arrested him in front of his house.

Muhammad Talebur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Department, told the media that details of where Shawkat Mahmud was arrested and in which case will be announced later.

Last April, a new political party named ‘Janata Party Bangladesh’ was launched. The party’s chairman is film actor Ilias Kanchan. The secretary general is Shawkat Mahmud. He was the vice chairman of BNP.