BNP leader Moyeen Khan released

BNP Standing Committee Member Moyeen Khan was released hours after he was picked up by police from the party’s black flag procession at Uttara in the capital on Tuesday (January 30) afternoon.

He was released around 3:15 pm.

Md Shahjahan, deputy commissioner of Uttara Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said: “Moyeen Khan was neither arrested nor detained. We asked him to refrain from joining black flag procession.”

Earlier, Moyeen Khan was picked up by police from near a graveyard of Uttara-12 in the capital on Tuesday from their ongoing processions with black flags, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

Later, he was taken to Uttara West Police Station.

BNP is holding black flag processions at seven places in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country protesting the price hike of daily essentials and demanding release of the party men including its chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia from jail and cancellation of the parliament.