Nagorik Oikya demands proper treatment for interned Manna

Nagorik Oikya yesterday demanded that its convener, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, be provided proper treatment and released.

"On January 16, Manna fell unconscious in jail. His wife rushed to see him...She was not allowed to meet her husband and was sent back," one of the civil society platform's leaders, Jinnur Rahman Jinnu, told a press briefing in the capital yesterday.

Manna was arrested on February 24 last year, a day after his telephone conversation with BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka about strengthening the anti-government movement, among many other issues, was leaked. A sedition case was filed against the two on March 5.