Emi, arrested for playing Bangabandhu’s speech, gets bail

BD Digest Report

The High Court has granted bail to Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi, former VP of Dhaka University’s Shamsunnahar Hall Parliament, in a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act over the playing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s March 7 speech.

The High Court bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher issued the order on Thursday (April 30).

On March 7 this year, around 9:30 pm, Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Imi and a few others announced a program to play a speech by standing in front of Shahbagh Police Station. While playing a speech on a microphone in a rickshaw, a group of Dhaka University students including DUCSU leader AB Zubair, Musaddikke Ali Ibn Mohammad, and Tahmid Al Modassir, convener of the NCP student organization Jatiya Chhatra Shakti, stopped them.

At one point, Ali took AB Zubair and Musaddiq, along with Sheikh Tasnim Afroz and another person, inside Shahbagh police station in a rickshaw. Later, the police detained them.

The next day, on March 8, the three detainees were shown arrested in a case filed by Shahbagh Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act and sent to jail. The police filed a case in this incident.