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| Shibirs Ekram again tells of Jamaat story |
| 2010-03-13 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Rajshahi University Shibir leader Ekram Hossain gave confessional statement before a Rajshahi court yesterday reiterating his statement in Dhaka that linked central leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir with the February 9 violence. The violence in RU on February 9 left Chhatra League leader Faruk Hossain dead. The second court of Metropolitan Magistrate Ziaur Rahman recorded Ekram's confessional statement under Section-164. It took him four and a half hours since 2:00pm to record the statement, said court sources. None was allowed in the court when the statement was being recorded. Ekram's lawyer Abu Raihan Al Biruni was allowed in the court after it was recorded. He told reporters afterwards that the statement was "similar to the statement given before the media in Dhaka". Sources said Ekram in the statement said he took part in the attack on Chhatra League with the Shibir group led by RU Shibir President Shamsul Alam Golap. He said Golap contacted several times with central Jamaat and Shibir leaders during the night of violence. His statement mentioned Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Shibir President Rezaul Karim, said Raihan. Ekram Hossain, president of Amir Ali Hall unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir and a masters' student of Islamic studies department at RU, was placed on a seven-day remand on March 10 in connection with police assault case, one out of 11 cases filed in connection with the violence on February 9. Senior police officials said they are yet to know details of the statement as none including the police was allowed in the court when it was recorded. Rapid Action Battalion-1 arrested Ekram at Savar on March 7. |
| Posted by:Fred |