Bangladesh on Monday named a second editor for allegedly plotting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, days after an 81-year-old pro-opposition magazine journalist was arrested for his involvement in the same case.
Mahmudur Rahman, 62, already faces 75 cases of sedition after authorities shut down his Amar Desh newspaper for allegedly inciting religious tension in 2013.
The police claimed that they have found involvement of detained Rahman in the alleged conspiracy to abduct and kill prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the US.
“Investigators have found Mahmudur Rahman’s connection with a plot to abduct and kill prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy,” said Additional commissioner and chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Monirul Islam. Rahman has been in jail since his arrest from his newspaper’s office in the capital in 2013 for allegedly inciting religious tension.