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| Bangladesh |
| Huji founder Salam held |
| 2009-11-03 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday arrested Moulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, founder of banned Islamist group Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji), for suspected links with the August 21 grenade blasts. A Dhaka court placed the arrestee on a six-day remand in the afternoon. The detention comes a week after former BNP state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown arrested in the case filed for the blasts. Queried, CID officials did not give the exact time and place of Salam's arrest. They only said they picked him up from the city yesterday. Meanwhile, a source close to Salam's family claimed a team of plainclothes CID men held him Sunday afternoon on the Dhaka Judges' Court premises where he went to appear before a court in the CPB rally blast case. |
| Posted by:Fred |