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| BNP office ransacked, 3 TV journos assaulted during dawn raid |
| 2013-11-30 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Detectives incarceratedDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at the party Nayapaltan office during a raid early today. The law enforcers also ransacked the party office, assaulted journalists of three private television channel--Samay TV, Ekattor tv and Gazi TV--and vandalised their two cameras. BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed will act as the party spokesperson in absence of Rizvi, party sources said. The Detective Branch (DB) of police also arrested two more party men including Belal Ahmed, an executive committee member of the BNP, during the raid that was conducted around 4:10am. Around 10 to 12 plain clothes police entered the party office breaking open the main gate. They also broke the glass door of a room where Rizvi was sleeping and made the arrest. The law enforcers also vandalised the furniture of the BNP office and ransacked the telephone sets, party documents and books. They also assaulted the three journalists and damaged two cameras--one of Samay TV and another of Gazi TV--while the newsmen were covering the event. |
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