Cartoonist Kabir Kishore, writer Mushtaq sent to jail

A Dhaka court has sent Cartoonist Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmuda Akter passed the order on Wednesday.

Earlier, Ramna police station Sub-Inspector Jamshedul Islam, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court and sought an order to keep them in jail.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Kishore and Mushtaq from Dhaka’s Kakrail and Lalmatia area respectively, and then handed them over to police.

Later, a case was filed against the duo and nine others with the Ramna police station.

According to police, Cartoonist Kabir Kishore had been posting various critical cartoon-posters on the role of the government in the ongoing coronavirus situation in the country on his “Ami Kishore” Facebook page and Mushtaq shared the posts on his Facebook page.


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