Rajshahi Bar threatens to boycott CMM court

The ultimatum followed the CMM's alleged "misbehaviour" with some lawyers including bar association general secretary Mohammad Yahea over the latter's appeal for release of photojournalist Selim Zahangir.

Yahea told reporters that the CMM talked with him "rudely" and did not allow him to sit when he along with a number of lawyers and senior journalists went to his chamber and requested for putting up Selim's case to his court.

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"He (CMM) outright rejected our prayer, saying journalists did excess in newspapers over the incident and so the case could not be put up to court within seven days", Yahea said.

Meanwhile, journalists here continued their movement and formed a long human chain on the court premises for release of Selim.

On Sunday night, journalists at a meeting at the Metropolitan Press Club formed a steering committee headed by Shah Anisur Rahman for release of Selim and and put forward a ten-point demand.

The demands include release of Selim and withdrawal of the case against him, judicial investigation into the incident, removal of Magistrate Abdul Majid, Assistant Commissioner of Police Wazed Ali and Boalia thana OC Aslam Iqbal from Rajshahi.

Selim, photojournalist of the Janakantha and organising secretary of Bangladesh Photojournalist Association, was arrested on Saturday afternoon while he was on duty.