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| Sedition, defamation cases against Amini |
| 2011-04-01 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Two separate cases on sedition and defamation charges were filed on Thursday against Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini, president of an Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... (IOJ) faction. Metropolitan Magistrate Haroon-or-Rashid of Dhaka around 12:00pm issued an arrest warrant and a summons against Amini, but about two hours into their issuance it withdrew the orders and fixed April 25 to pass orders in the cases. The court issued the arrest order hours after AB Siddiqui, president of Bangladesh Jononetri Gay Pareehad, filed the case against Amini for his derogatory remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In the complaint, the plaintiff alleged that Amini at a March 18 rally in the city had said the prime minister would be forced from the power. The same court summoned Amini and Maulana Abdullah Wasel, publicity secretary of Islami Ain Bastobayon Committee, to appear before it on April 26 in the other case filed for making anti-state remarks. Hafez Maulana Ziaul Hasan, president of Sammilito Islami Jote, filed the case in the morning with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court. He said Amini at a city conference made the remarks while critising the national women development policy on March 21. |
| Posted by:Fred |