'Police torture' on journo condemned
Journalist leaders yesterday condemned the torture on Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter of online news agency Justnewsbd.com, after detaining him for more than two days in custody of DB police as well as implicating him in a false stealing case.
In a statement, Kamal Uddin Sabuj and Syed Abdal Ahmad, president and general secretary of the Jatiya Press Club, said torture on any person after detaining secretly is a violation of human rights.
They demanded immediate release of Sumon as well exemplary punishment to the perpetrators.
Family sources said DB police picked up Sumon for his active involvement in various protest programmes of journalists on Sagar-Runi murder and Bibhas Chandra Saha's death.
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked up journalist Sumon from in front of Eastern Plaza on Friday afternoon, kept him at a secret place and allegedly beat him up indiscriminately.
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