Sit-in staged in Dhaka for Manna's release

Nagorik Chhatra Oikya and Nagorik Jubo Oikya jointly staged a sit-in on Saturday in front of the capital's Jatiya Press Club, demanding immediate release of their imprisoned leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

Speakers at the sit-in said the country now needed a clean politician like Manna as he was vocal against sick politics.

He was a voice of the people seeking emancipation and democracy and should be released unconditionally, they added.

Plainclothes detectives arrested the then Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna in the capital on February 24 last year. The arrest was made a day after his phone conversation with BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka was leaked to the media anonymously.

The speakers also demanded trial of the all recent murders including of Comilla Victoria College student Shohagi Jahan Tonu and the ones in Banshkhali upazila of Chittagong.