Bangladesh has frozen the accounts of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (AHAB) against the backdrop of its suspected links withoutlawed Islamist militant outfits. The move came just one day after the closing of the personal account of Dr. Asadullah Al-Ghalib, chief of the banned Jamaatul Mujahedeen and also the chief of a faction of Ahle Hadith Movement now arrested and undergoing intensive interrogation by army-led Joint Interrogation Cell in Dhaka.Meanwhile, three aides of Dr. Ghalib were sent to Dhaka from Gopalganj on Thursday for interrogation at the Joint Interrogation Cell. All the three men, Abdus Samad Salafi, A.S.M. Azizullah and Nurul Islam, were being interrogated at the cell yesterday. The outcome of the interrogation could not be known as the investigators remained tight-lipped. However, a source said that the investigators were examining the computer disks and documents seized from the Ahle Hadith office in Rajshahi on Wednesday. The police were also in the hunt for recovery of more documents from the office in Rajshahi and elsewhere in the northern region. Heavy police guard had escorted the three aides of Ghalib to Dhaka. The three arrestees were brought to Gopalganj from Rajshahi jail on Tuesday and the police took them on a 10-day remand on Wednesday. They were shown arrested in a case filed with Kotalipara police station of the district in connection with a robbery at an office of leading development organization Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) in January.
Meanwhile, the militants of Bangla Bhai, another aide of Ghalib, sent letters to 10 journalists of Lalmonirhat district with death threats. Receiving the letters, the worried journalists registered a general diary with Lalmonirhat police station seeking security for them.
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